"Coming of Age in the Milky Way" Quotes
"Coming of Age in the Milky Way" explores the history of humanity's understanding of the universe and our place within it.
science | 512 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The stars are the atoms of the universe.
The Milky Way is a large city of stars, so crowded together that the most powerful telescope ever invented cannot see more than a fraction of them.
Physicists can be a pain in the neck. They are always looking for the ultimate constituent of matter, the smallest particles of which the universe is made.
We are stardust, and to the stars we shall return.
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; it shows us the universe in all its grandeur.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Humans are not the culmination of anything, nor are we somehow the paragons of creation.
The most striking thing about the universe is that we can understand it.
The stars are the streetlights of eternity.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
