Top 1200 Astronomy And Universe Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it God, the universe, a higher power, karmic law, whatever. At any rate, if he feels that the universe is trying to tell him something, then he may listen. He won't listen to you or anyone else, but the universe, that's a different story.

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

And sure, there's a universe where I made a bonehead call that blew the Super Bowl. But that's not my universe.

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it. You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe's provision.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe within us, is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.

For mankind, universe is a battle arena against universe; there is no room for crying!

...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe. Now, this is basically incompatible with virtually all the religious or metaphysical systems whatever, all of which try to show that there is some sort of harmony between man and the universe and that man is a product-predictable if not indispensable-of the evolution of the universe.

Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.

Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution.

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

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

The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.

I'm definitely planning ahead for a brand that spans the universe - a Zac Posen universe.