Cosmos Quotes

• I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Believe, Dust

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 4, 1980.

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• Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet, it is.

  Cecil Palmer

  Proud, Be Proud, Proud Of You

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• What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

  Brian Cox

  Life, Mean, Science

  "Wonders of the Universe (Messengers)". Documentary, March 27, 2011.

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• For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

  Heraclitus

  Awake

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• All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

  Mother Teresa

  Wisdom, Fun, Heart

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  The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Iron, Apples

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Heart, Limitless

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• The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Stuff, Stardust

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• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Self, Events

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

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• We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

  Carl Sagan

  Stills, Wanderers

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Knowledge, Acceptance

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Perspective

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

  Starhawk

  Perfect, Interesting, Crafts

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Kids, Science

  Psychology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. January 1, 1996.

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• A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Moon, Men

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• We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Stuff

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Earth, Breathe, Harmony

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

  Alfred Adler

  God, Stars, Fate

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  We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Butterfly, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Wish, Prejudice, Superstitions

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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• It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Learning, Science

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• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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