Cosmology Quotes - Page 2

• On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

  Albert Einstein

  Hands, Left Hand, Add

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• Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mean, Men, Law

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• I wouldn't say that The Fabric of the Cosmos is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Mean, Reality

  "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. February 8, 2005.

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• The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of stillness at which they can perceive these most beautiful realms of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Light

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• There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

  Stephen Hawking

  Light, Black, Horizon

  "Stephen Hawking: There Are No Black Holes" by Audrey Barrick, www.christianpost.com. January 25, 2014.

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• The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Novelty, Opinion, Astronomy

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• In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Perfect, Firsts, Astronomy

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• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  George Ellery Hale

  Fall, Squares, Rays

  George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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• So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Art, Men, Astrology

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• The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, Europe, Secret

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• The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks where the ski resort, one of the holiest, sacred mountains in Navajo cosmology. I mean, it's considered a horrible desecration. I mean, you know, put it into another cultural context and you wouldn't be able to think of that being, with any other racial group. But for Indians because, you know, we think they really don't care about land or they have primitive ideas or they don't have ownership, we completely disrespect that.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Mean, Thinking, Disrespect

  "Bill Moyers: It's a Non-Stop Land Grab From the American Indians". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.alternet.org. December 26, 2014.

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• The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Lying, Velocity, Astronomy

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1920). “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...”

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

  "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA". www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.

  Robert Nozick

  Giving, Black, Holes

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• My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Important, Branches, Problem

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• Billions and billions.

  Carl Sagan

  Astronomy, Billions

  Keay Davidson, Carl Sagan (1999). “Carl Sagan: a life”, John Wiley & Sons

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• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Believe, Numbers, Quality

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• Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ugly Things, Helping

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• The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Data, Space

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Stars, Order, Energy

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• In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

  William Herschel

  Gratitude, Stars, Hero

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• There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

  Giordano Bruno

  Astronomy, Universe

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• The barrier has begun to yield.

  John Herschel

  Yield, Astronomy, Barriers

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.550, Cambridge University Press

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• It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Body, Astronomy, Planets

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