Jodi Picoult Quotes

You know, dark matter matters.

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know.

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein's statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.

Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.

Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.

I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights from inwards to outwards, and I started becoming interested in the makeup of the universe, and I started reading about astronomy, planets, and galaxies.

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

I'm still amazed at how the universe works.

I was drawn to astronomy by a teenage existential quest. Around 13, I was deep into wondering about the meaning of life and what I was doing here. I turned to religion, but that did nothing for me. I got to wondering where was here. So, I began studying astronomy and became enthralled by what I learned.

We would look up at the night sky together, and although Stephen wasn't actually very good at detecting constellations, he would tell me about the expanding universe and the possibility of it contracting again and describe a star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole in a way that was quite easy to understand.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

Dark matter is one of the dominant constituents of the universe, which piled up in certain parts of the universe due to gravity, and in those regions, galaxies were formed. It is the unseen thing that holds the universe together.

Hubble has really opened our eyes to what the universe is made of, its structure, and has helped us learn how little we know about the universe.