Guglielmo Marconi Quotes

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

The universe is a great mystery.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

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!

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

I've always been consumed by things that are out of this world, like space and moons.