Cosmos Quotes

When I was little, my mother used to tell me that the universe was made in sparks. Would that mean that at the beginning, someone had clacked two cosmic stones together?.

Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment

Your body may not be, but the quintessence your being and entity is made-up of, is forever.

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.

Man is flawed

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all else fails, search within!