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“In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists!”

“We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Kind Earth Life Is Space Generations Walking Moon Resources Crosses Neighborhood Exploration Technological Galaxy Human History Space Exploration Threshold Star Gazing

Author:Sara Seager

“The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.”

Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

“Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.”

Source: Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization

“If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.”

“The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.”

Years Age Universe Stars Space Cities Darkness Growing Dying Depth Billions Candle Fades Galaxy Celestial Graveyard Memorabilia

Author:Edward Robert Harrison

“Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.”

Stars Dark Deals Materials Responsible Unseen Galaxy

Book:The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series

Source: The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series

“If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.”

Ifs Today Universe Stars Space Sea Atoms Uniforms Galaxy Meter

Book:The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series

Source: The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series

“Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.”

Years Two Today Faces Millions Planets Creatures Years Ago Crisis Musical Composer Galaxy

Author:George Crumb

“Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.”

Knows Book Stories Dies Black Fire Hair Definitions Missions Bones Holes Beach Convince Over It Fabulous Galaxy Black Hole

Author:Dorothea Benton Frank

“Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.”

Awareness Strange Safe Galaxy Usage Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Ford Prefect Arthur Dent

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?”

Doe Play Poetry Moon Silver Galaxy

Author:Joni Mitchell

“The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.”

People Stills Player Special Galaxy

Author:Cobi Jones

“Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.”

“In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.”