“For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
Albert Einstein
“We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that”
D.H. Lawrence
“The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.”
“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?”
Walker Percy
“I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos”
