Jostein Gaarder Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Garden, Islands, May

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.108, Macmillan

• Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Flower, Insects, Universe

• When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Light, Years

• I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Girl, Eye, Thinking

• The universe is a great mystery.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mystery, Universe

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