Quasars Quotes

• I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.

  R. J. Anderson

  Unique, Ideas, Design

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.290, Carolrhoda Lab

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• Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Doe, Monk

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Sight, Dust, Telescopes

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Ideas, Black

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• Activity does not necessarily mean life.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life, Mean, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Home, Bored, Connections

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.26, Ultramarine Publishing

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