Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Douglas AdamsTags: perspective humour earth cosmology ape digital galaxy primitive unfashionable watches
For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves.
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The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.
Carl SaganTags: science astronomy awe galaxy
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam HarrisTags: humor obvious philosophy atheism atheist justification galaxy elvis elvis-presley alchemy religious-beliefs
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.
Eric ChaissonTags: sun universe earth astronomy galaxy
The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you.
The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that.
-General Tagon
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Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry soul literature flying space scientists quotes thoughts galaxy scientist cell poetry-quotes task entering literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic honorable penetrating
Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative".
Jay WoodmanTags: calling poem song galaxy blackness
...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.
Italo CalvinoTags: time signs space existential galaxy mark
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Christopher WrenTags: science life prediction future universe aliens space astronomy planets galaxy extraterrestrials extraterrestrial-life alien-life extra-solar-planets
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