216 Quotes About Cosmology


  • Author Carl Sagan
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    If the laws of nature are unpredictably reassorted at the cusps (the transition from contraction to expansion of the universe), then it is only by the most extraordinary coincidence that the cosmic slot machine has this time come up with a universe consistent with us.

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  • Author Robert Redding
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    In the vastness of space, in the vastness of geologic time, some say that nothing matters very much and few things matter at all. When the earth falls into the sun…when the Taj Mahal, Mozart and the Mona Lisa burn to a crisp….what difference will it make?

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  • Author Professor Martin Rees
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    In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Like the microscopic strands of DNA that predetermine the identity of a macroscopic species and the unique propertires of its members, the modern look and feel of the cosmos was writ in the fabric of its earliest moments, and carried relentlessly through time and space. We feel it when we look up. We feel it when we look down. We feel it when we look within.

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  • Author Margaret Geller
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    One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

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