Galaxy Quotes - Page 17

• I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Stars, Believe, Eye

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.201, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists!

  Pope Pius XII

  Space, Light, Creator God

  71 Copy quote

• It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact, there appears as yet no reason for modifying the tentative hypothesis that the spirals are not composed of typical stars at all, but are truly nebulous objects.

  Harlow Shapley

  Stars, Science, Views

  13 Copy quote

• We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

  Sara Seager

  Moon, Space, Generations

  "Life beyond Earth seems 'inevitable', US planetary scientist says", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Moon

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

  Robert Zubrin

  Mistake, Moon, Race

  Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Moon, Years, Two

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

  11 Copy quote

• Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.

  John D. Barrow

  Stars, Dark, Unseen

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.70, Basic Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Beach, Book, Fire

  6 Copy quote

• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moving, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

  Damon Lindelof

  Stars, War, Long

  4 Copy quote

• I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

  Missi Pyle

  Jobs, Crazy, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

  D. V. Ager

  Science, Records, Easy

  4 Copy quote

• In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  One Day, East, Body

  4 Copy quote

• I totally think that the likelihood upon this whole galaxy and universe, we are the only ones... I don't think we are.

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph

  Thinking, Whole, Likelihood

  "Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Luka Jones Talk TBS’ ‘People Of Earth’ + Watch The First Episode!". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Ambition, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be kind of magical if we were just happening to be able to see right to some boundary and then something crazy happened beyond that, like galaxies ceased to exist. I mean, that just seems nuts.

  Janna Levin

  Crazy, Mean, Nuts

  Source: www.wbur.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dna, Ears, Pandora's Box

  8 Copy quote

• You need to realize that the galaxy is organized and structured and has been for billions of years, that the life that is out there is loving, that it is working together, that they see us as children and they're doing everything they can to help us.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Children, Years, Together

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe cares about white or black humans, it seems, and what meaning could physical appearance possibly have when there are sentient beings that look like lobsters or like Jabba the Hutt? Unfortunately, in the real world, such hopeful sentiments are regularly refuted by our stubborn insistence on always finding someone to discriminate against.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, War, Hopeful

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The one I spend the most amount of time in is a Ford Galaxy, which my tour manager drives me around in and which I drive at the weekends. What I love about the Galaxy is the amount of space I get. I can get so much done in the back of it while we're on the road, it's like my mobile office! I've also got a Ford B-Max, which I'm a total evangelist about. It's got rear doors that slide. Now, I can't park, so those are the best things ever. You can park right up against a tree and still get out!

  Russell Kane

  Weekend, Office, Tree

  4 Copy quote

• The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent
  upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.

  Diego Cortez

  Buddhist, Real, Buddhism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source