Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

The universe is a great mystery.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

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

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.