cosmic fascination Quotes

Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!'

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

I'll never be done with space. I will always be involved.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.