Galileo Galilei Quotes

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

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.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

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

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.

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.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

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

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.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

The stars are so far, far away!

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

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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

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.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

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.

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

The universe is a great mystery.