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Three day old moon (waxing gibbous)

 
 

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic


The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)


Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)


Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)


If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin (1937 - 2008)

 
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