Cosmic Discoveries Quotes

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

Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.

Hubble made my career.

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?