Quotes tagged ‘Cosmos’

“Pixar journeys through the cosmos to answer life's biggest questions.”

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, ew.com

“What is love? What is this longing in our hearts for togetherness? Is it not the sweetest flower? Does not this flower of love have the fragrant aroma of fine, fine diamonds? Does not the wind love the dirt? Is not love not unlike the unlikely not it is unlikened to? Are you with someone tonight? Do…”

— Tim Meadows, Andrew Steele, Dennis McNicholas, Leon Phelps, Tim Meadows, imdb.com

“The stars don't seem as intimidating as before, and I'm starting to feel closer to them. Each one gives out its own special light. I identify certain stars and watch how they twinkle in the night. Every once in a while they blaze more brightly for a moment.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Sunlight shoots down through the branches like a spotlight illuminating the ground at my feet. The place feels special, somehow . . . Realizing all over again how important sunlight is to human beings, I appreciate each second of that precious light. The intense loneliness and helplessness I felt un…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are d…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete wit…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos?”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“There seems to be a mysterious force in the universe, one that overwhelms gravity on the grandest scale to push the cosmos apart….We call it ‘dark energy,’ but that name, like ‘dark matter,’ is merely a code word for our ignorance. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our igno…”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“The age and size of the cosmos are written in light. The nature of beauty and the substance of the stars, the laws of space and time they were there all along, but we never saw them until we devised a more powerful way of seeing.”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“Not that anybody asked, but Gregorian calendar rules unintentionally prevent eclipses from ever occurring on Easter Sunday.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Stars radiate energy into space, thus depleting their finite supply of nuclear energy. Eventually that precious stellar commodity will be spent, at which point the stars will burn out and go dark. As will our sun, in about 5 billion years. In something like 1,000 billion years, all of the stars in t…”

— Alan Lightman, nautil.us

“'Yggdrasil' - in Norse cosmology, the great ash tree at the cosmos's centre, the branches & roots of which connect different realms & times, allowing passage from underworld to heaven. One of many such 'world-trees' that stand rooted in global cultures.”

— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com

“Global warming doesn’t mean every day is hot as the surface of the Sun from now on. Winter still happens & occasionally some of us will be very cold. If you want consistently hot global temps. though it is only a matter of (a very long) time until the Sun swells to its red giant phase On the scale o…”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects—seemi…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“The cosmos is within us. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan, imdb.com

“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

— Yasunari Kawabata, amazon.com

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.1”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com