Cosmologist
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"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
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🇺🇸Carl Sagan
Science
1934–1996
"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."
270 quotes
🇬🇧Stephen Hawking
Science
atheism
1942–2018
"On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that."
94 quotes
🇬🇧Martin Rees
Science
b. 1942
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
9 quotes
🇦🇺Paul Davies
Science
b. 1946
"Seventy-five years ago Erwin Schrödinger published... ... the key point... was whether life can be explained by physics. ...Schrödinger ...said "We must be prepared to find a new kind of physical law prevailing..."
42 quotes
🇺🇸Alan Guth
Science
b. 1947
"It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch."
15 quotes
🇸🇪Max Tegmark
Science
b. 1967
"e've repeatedly underestimated not only the size of our cosmos, but also the power of our human mind to understand it."
40 quotes
🇺🇸George Smoot
Science
1945–2025
"But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand."
1 quotes
🇩🇪Johannes Kepler
Science
1571–1630
"Kepler's Belief in Astrology" by Nicholas Kollerstrom"
43 quotes
🇦🇱Laura Mersini-Houghton
Science
b. 1969
2 quotes
🇺🇸George Gamow
Science
1904–1968
"I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance."
10 quotes
🇺🇸Edwin Hubble
Science
1889–1953
"Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial."
6 quotes
🇺🇸Steven Weinberg
Science
atheism
1933–2021
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
48 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
— Stephen Hawking, b. 1942View →
"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."
— Carl Sagan, b. 1934View →
"If we seek... nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception."
— Carl Sagan, b. 1934View →
"Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive."
— Carl Sagan, b. 1934View →
"Why is “energy independence” mentioned so often as a justification for environmentally risky nuclear power plants or offshore drilling—but so rarely to justify insulation, efficient cars, or wind and solar energy?"
— Carl Sagan, b. 1934View →