Quotes about Cosmos

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

We are all star stuff.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.

The Whirlpool galaxy beautifully displays its spiral nature while mysteriously hiding exactly how it spins the way it does.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.