James Jeans Quotes

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

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

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.

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.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

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.

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

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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

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'm really into space. When I was four years old, I used to pray to the stars and look at the moon.

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 first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

Billions and billions.