Astronomy And Universe Quotes

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Earth, Vastness

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Science, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

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• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Blue, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Dark, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Shine On, Shining

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• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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• God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

  Giordano Bruno

  Greatness, Excellence, World

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

  Woody Allen

  Science, People, Comforting

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

  Carl Sagan

  Prophet, Subtle, Bigger

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Queens, Night

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• Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

  Martin Rees

  Lying, Past, Thinking

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• I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Science

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• The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

  Peter De Vries

  Nature, Science, World

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Let Me Count the Ways: A Novel”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Existentialism, Benign

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 250, 1980.

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• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, God, Crazy

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Fifth" (radio program) (1978)

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• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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