Paul Davies Quotes

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Billions and billions.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.