Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.