216 Quotes About Cosmology

We may move in different circles but we all dance the same dance on the music of the spheres

The purpose of the universe is love.

We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.

There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

In some universes, all possible pasts funnel towards a single fixed ending, Ω.It you are of millenarian bent, you might call Ω Armageddon, If you are of grammatical bent, you might call it punctuation on a cosmological scale.If you are a philosopher in such a universe, you might call Ω inevitable.

Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

That's all I can tell you. once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.