cosmic stability Quotes

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

A static universe isn't physically self-consistent.

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

Earth endures; Stars abide.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.