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Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.”

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.”

Way Song Stars Fields Planets Son Wind Empty Sigh Galaxy Your Son Milky Way

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.”

Source: Local Girls

“When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.”

Knows Way Years Looks Littles Ideas Bigs Light Universe Stars Space Sun Look Up Looking Back Back In Time Milky Way Light Years

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.”

“Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.”

Way Humans Persons Two Play Bigs Kids Left Stars Loses Class Laughing Sun Position Planets Baseball Importance Billions Comment Galaxy Solar System Left Out Milky Way

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way. Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn. And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.”

Men World Way Giving Trying May Hard Light Might Would Be Beautiful Young Love You Planets Agree Shining Young Man Brighter Milky Way

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”

Thinking World Way Mind Littles Matter Night Universe Stars Realizing Rooms This World Mountain Endless Milky Way

Book:Lonesome Traveler

Source: Lonesome Traveler

“I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.”

Ifs Way Ends Stars Felt Sun Planets Hair Fingers Shooting Throat Toes Pitcher Celestial Pouring Milky Way Hovering Fingers And Toes

Book:The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

“Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.”

“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”

Way Whole Stories Past Forever Events Fit Constellations Milky Way

Book:The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Faraway Nearby

“If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.”

Ifs Way Earth America Science Next Stars Sun New York Size Coffee Cups Galaxy Shrinks Orbit North America Coffee Cup Peas Tokyo Milky Way Pluto

Author:Wayne Hays

“As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.”

Way Light Science Universe White Greater Questioning Sage Gleam Milky Way

Book:The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: the Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation

Source: The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: the Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation

“Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.”

Way Mind Soul God Science Walks Poor Taught Wind Proud Clouds Indian Milky Way

Author:Alexander Pope

“We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.”

Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

“There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.”

Ifs World Way Life Should May Home Science Views Known Principles Sun Possibility Planets Prepared Point Of View Billions Dirty Mediocrity Nasty Be Prepared Galaxy Researchers Milky Way

Author:Seth Shostak

“Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.”

Men Way Needs May Stars Space Sea Ocean Roots Seeds Strikes Chakra Milky Way

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.”

Way Humans Order Three Stars Numbers Brain Millions Rich Four Accounts Add Extraordinary Billions Cells Complexity Pounds Inner Life Magnitude Liver Human Brain Neurons Milky Way

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we are confined. Who knows that the whole visible universe is not like a drop of water at the surface of the earth? Inhabitants of that drop of water, as small relative to it as we are relative to the Milky Way, could not possibly imagine that beside the drop of water there might be a piece of iron or a living tissue, in which the properties of matter are entirely different.”

“Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.”

Way Spiritual Love Is Ocean Floating Ecstatic Foam Milky Way Flakes Ecstatic Love

Author:Rumi

“For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.”

Way Years Has Beens Night Galaxy Milky Way

Author:Bart Bok

“Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way”

Way Stills Morning Sun Filled Billions Dawn Glorious Rising Sunrise Galaxy Milky Way

Author:Carl Sagan

“I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Long I Can Stars Waiting Wonder Fire Clouds Simile Pardon Commonplace Alarms Milky Way

Book:Expedition to Earth

Source: Expedition to Earth

“Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are small as balls of clay Astray into the Milky Way, world's outasight Far as the eye can see, not even a satellite Now stop and turn around and look As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took! So keep starin' soon you suddenly see a star You better follow it, cause it's the R.”

World Way Looks Eye Earth Turns Universe Stars Causes Darkness Planets Balls Hip Hop Rap Speed Staring Magnificent Clay Satellites Milky Way

Author:Rakim

“The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.”

Way Heaven Consciousness Tiny Reminding Specks Insignificance Interconnection Milky Way

Author:Roz Savage

“Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958”

Source: The Poems of Mao Zedong

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rest and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.”

Men Way Mind Humans Soul Home Simple Walks Poor Behinds Taught Wind Proud Eternal Spring Clouds Hills Indian Breasts Uneasy Milky Way

Author:Alexander Pope

“Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.”

Source: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”

World Way Years Water Planets Elements Structure Property Complicated Tiny Visible Chemicals Unusual Carbon Fragments Our Planet Dots Lumps Solar System Specks Milky Way

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.”

Way Shows Light Stars Cheese Cream Celestial Vapor Milky Way Clusters

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.”

World Way Looks Doe Enough Earth Science Universe Mystery Creation Flower Comparison Insects Milky Way

Book:Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

“That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.”

Thinking Way Enough Science Universe Millions Sun Mystery Hundred Billions Galaxy Spirals Milky Way Andromeda

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”

Way Mean Given Stars Brain Thousand Ten Connections Billions Typical Galaxy Tissues Neurons Milky Way

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.”

Way Heaven Rivers Ancient Chinese Streams Fancy Silver Luminous Milky Way

Book:The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories

Source: The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories

“The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it’s countless other universes.”