Thursday, September 13, 2012

Galaxy Quotes

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. 
Carl Sagan 

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. 
Joseph Gordon-Levitt 

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. 
Wislawa Szymborska 

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. 
A. R. Ammons 

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. 
Kalpana Chawla 

The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. 
Dwight Schultz 

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. 
Seth Lloyd 

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. 
Djuna Barnes 

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. 
George Crumb 

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. 
David Eagleman 

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing. 
Leroy Chiao 

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge! 
Wilson Greatbatch 

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. 
Jonathan Frakes

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