Jeff Goldblum Quotes

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.

There's planets, life in the universe. You don't talk about that in high school - or maybe I skipped class that day.

Fred Hoyle was one of the first scientists to become famous on television and radio. It was because he told a dramatic story about the universe - about how amazing it is and the extraordinary discoveries that astronomers like him were making.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.