Cosmology Quotes

The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...

... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eterna...

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I th...

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

[Beware of] the fallacy of misplaced concreteness [mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality, fo...

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, mak...

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not...

The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support ...

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes o...

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...

And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear th...

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars w...

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than w...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no tu...

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however ...

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is the...

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ...

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the univer...

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and plane...

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aestheticall...

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are n...

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their ...

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtfu...

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...m...

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...