Best Astronomy And Universe Quotes

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

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.

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

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

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

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

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.

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? Instead they say, No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way. A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

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

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience….. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

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

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the ‘Momentary’ masters of a ‘Fraction’ of a ‘Dot’

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

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

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