Quotes about Cosmos

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.

If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

in 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.

for the fluctuations in the background. However, within a few years we should know whether we can believe that we live in a universe that is completely self-contained and without beginning or end.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Eventually, however, the star will run out of its hydrogen and other nuclear fuels. Paradoxically, the more fuel a star starts off with, the sooner it runs out. This is because the more massive the star is, the hotter it needs to be to balance its gravitational attraction.