Paul Virilio Quotes

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.

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

It's like, the more you zoom in and focus on the details, the closer to the invisible and immeasurable qualities - like consciousness and energies - you get. And expanding outwards, into the cosmos, you learn more about the invisible or perceptible things.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

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

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

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

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.

I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.

Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.

The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.

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

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

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.

When I look at the clouds over the Earth, and I know how high clouds are, I get a sense we are really, really far above those clouds. I wouldn't call it scary, but I am aware I am in space.

I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.

When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.