Stars And Planets Quotes:

There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Stars, Thinking, May, Stars And Planets

I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Stars, Happy Life, Stars And Planets, Deeper Meaning

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Stars, Flying, Mind, Stars And Planets

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.357, Penguin

topic: Stars And Planets, Heavenly Bodies

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

- Galileo Galilei

source: "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Summer, Sour Grapes, Ripening

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

topic: Stars, Liars, Men, Stars And Planets, Sun Moon And Stars

I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

- Brian Blessed

topic: Dream, Jesus, Stars, Stars And Planets, Stardust

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Stars, Science, People, Galaxy, Stars And Planets

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

- Jules Verne

topic: New York, Stars, Ocean, Space Travel, Stars And Planets

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

- Paul Nurse

topic: Stars, Winter, Sky, Stars And Planets

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Stars, Journey, Men, Stars And Planets

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

- Paracelsus

source: Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”

topic: Stars, Men, World, Stars And Planets, Firmament

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Song, Stars, Waiting, Stars And Planets, Birthing

We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Stars, Moon, Ideas, Stars And Planets

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Stars, Hands, Bangs, Stars And Planets

The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

- Huineng

source: Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

topic: Stars, Fall, Moon, Stars And Planets, Sun Moon

Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.

- Phil Plait

topic: Stars, Astrology, Connections, Stars And Planets

We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Stars, Science, Clouds, Stars And Planets

If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.

- Paul Davies

topic: Stars, Thinking, Civilization, Stars And Planets, Ancient Civilizations

The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.

- Thomas Berry

source: "A Language Older Than Words". Book by Derrick Jensen (p. 361), 2000.

topic: Nature, Stars, Flower, Stars And Planets

We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Stars, Stars And Planets

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

- George Gamow

source: George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.137, Courier Corporation

topic: Stars, Men, Years, Stars And Planets