Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

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.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

There are 100 Billion starts in the galaxy. That used to be an astronomical number. It's less than the national deficit. Now we should calm them economical numbers.

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

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.

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

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

Billions and billions.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

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