John C. Mather Quotes

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.

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.

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

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

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

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

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

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?

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

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.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

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.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

There is a distinct layer between the Earth and the universe, which is extremely black. Slowly, the entire universe starts to look 3D, like you can fly through it rather than this sphere of blackness overhead. And when you're above the atmosphere, there isn't water vapour in the air to make things foggy.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

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

I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.

Space is really domain expansion.