Cosmos Quotes

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”

“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.”

“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“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.”

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

“In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.”

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.”

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.”

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”

“The chiliasts made an atheist out of me.”

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

“Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either.”

“If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.”

“That it will never come againIs what makes life so sweet.”

“With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.”

“The laws of physics suffice, without supernatural intervention.”

“Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.”

“Science is, at least in part, informed worship.”

“People are rarely grateful for a demonstration of their credulity.”

“The best antidote for pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science.”

“Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.”