cosmic expanse Quotes

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

The starry cope Of heaven.

The stars are so far, far away!

It's a vast waste of space.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

There's a great universe just next door.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Outside the sky is light with stars

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.

This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.