Cosmic Destiny Quotes

There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.

I believe I'm from somewhere else, and I was put on this plain for a purpose. I've met other star children, too. We're like spirits who move from world to world.

I used to look out the window of my bedroom as a kid, and there were these stars that, in my mind, made a big "A" in the sky. I thought my destiny was to go there.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Part of the point of SETI has always been a search for answers about our own cosmic potential and destiny. If 'they' are out there, it means that there may be hope for us.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

Let the universe show us what it is.

Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.