Quotes tagged ‘galaxies’

“It is clear that we are just an advanced breed of primates on a minor planet orbiting around a very average star, in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. BUT, ever since the dawn of civilization people have craved for an understanding of the underlying order of the world.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

“There are more atoms in your eye than there are stars in all the galaxies in the known universe.”

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

“Many of us suspect that all of this—all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe—is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end.”

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

“There are something like a trillion galaxies in the observable universe, of a range of sizes. And galaxy collisions happen a lot. In fact, galaxies primarily grow by cannibalizing other (smaller) galaxies. Our own has eaten several—we can see streams of stars as debris. In fact, galaxies primarily g…”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com