Plato Quotes

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.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

I began to learn about the universe myself and take it seriously. I know the names of the stars. I know how near or far the heavenly bodies are from our own planet. I know our own place in the universe. I can feel the vastness of it inside myself. I began to realize with each passing fact what a wonderful and awesome place the universe is, and that helped me in comics because I was looking for the awesome.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.

The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.

I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.

It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, of what goes on in the universe.

Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

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.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.