The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.
The universe is not a machine after all but something more like a mind. It is more like a thought made flesh than like a machine made of matter.
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. To the large mind of the astronomer it is neither cruel nor kind, but only stupendous — and that is almost worse than cruelty.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
We live on the surface of a star, and we are made of the dust of stars. The atoms in our bodies were forged in the hearts of dying stars billions of years ago.
But the burden of proof, he cautions, remains with the infinity doubters. If you could somehow prove experimentally that the physical universe is indeed finite, even the most ardent backers of the higher infinite would likely take a moment to pause and reflect.
A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.
We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. We have come from the interstellar medium and into the form of conscious beings able to ask the supreme questions.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they are made of stardust literally.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they are made of starstuff which was assembled here, billions of years ago, in the course of the formation of the Earth as a planet. For this reason the constituents of our bodies are literally and intimately connected with the rest of the Universe.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they have formed in stars and at the centers of galaxies, and have passed through uncounted transformations. The yesterday of the atom is the history of the universe.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; we are made of stellar material, and the iron in our blood was forged in dying stars.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they have formed the cores of stars—gone through many transformations of the universe and of all the transformations of matter in space and time we are their inheritors.
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