David Eagleman Quotes

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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

The universe is a great mystery.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

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

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

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.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

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

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

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

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

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

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

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

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've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.