{"quotes":[{"text":"There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.","author":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","tags":["description","hannah-lillith-assadi","milky-way","moon","sky","sonora","stars"],"id":104865,"author_id":"Hannah+Lillith+Assadi"},{"text":"A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zone thou seestPowder'd wiht stars.","author":"John Milton","tags":["john-milton","milky-way","paradise-lost","stars"],"id":154020,"author_id":"John+Milton"},{"text":"Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the cosmic supervoid. In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*!","author":"Alastair Reynolds","tags":["cosmos","matter","milky-way","mind","self-aware"],"id":205360,"author_id":"Alastair+Reynolds"},{"text":"Timmy has no intention of going on the trip. He has never been on a sightseeing tour before and according to him, he is never going on one, end of discussion. Who wants to see a stupid planet called Earth, anyway?","author":"Amanda Dubin","tags":["earth","human","milky-way","science","spaceship","universe"],"id":220960,"author_id":"Amanda+Dubin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["carbon","dot","elements","infinitesimal","microscopic","milky-way","solar-system","water","world"],"id":272309,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellation of Cygnus was a distant galaxy—1000 million light years away. This discovery showed that some galaxies were capable of producing radio emission about a million times more intense than that from our own Galaxy or the Andromeda nebula, and the mechanisms responsible were quite unknown. ... [T]he possibilities were so exciting even in 1952 that my colleagues and I set about the task of designing instruments capable of extending the observations to weaker and weaker sources, and of exploring their internal structure.","author":"Martin Ryle","tags":["andromeda","andromeda-galaxy","astronomy","galaxies","intensity","light-years","mechanism","milky-way","nobel-laureate","observation","possibility","power","radio-astronomy","radio-telescope","science","source","space","structure","telescope","universe"],"id":280372,"author_id":"Martin+Ryle"},{"text":"All hopes there, so close to each other,are pulled into the void every night;when a band of pale twinkles milking the wayacross the divine breadth of skywhere every heart belongs.- From the poem 'The Universe In Blossom.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cosmos","galactic","galactic-power","galaxy","heart","milky-way","night","nightsky","universe"],"id":332774,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["beauty","brighter","light","love","milky-way","shine"],"id":348551,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.","author":"Henri Poincaré","tags":["astronomy","atoms","awe","comet","comparison","cosmology","galaxy","giant","jupiter","milky-way","science","size","stars","suns"],"id":399325,"author_id":"Henri+Poincar%C3%A9"},{"text":"I believe, if there is some sort of higher power, the universe is it. Whenever religious people ask me where the universe came from, I tell them that it has always been here, and was never created. The Big Bang theory is based on the fact that the universe is expanding right now. And if you rewind the tape, the universe appears to be shrinking. If you rewind the tape far enough, eventually the universe must be just one singular point. Or so the theory goes. But what if the universe has not always been expanding? What if it's pulsating, and one pulse takes trillions of years, and right now the universe is inhaling, and before that, trillions of years ago, it was exhaling?","author":"Oliver Gaspirtz","tags":["creation","creationism","exhale","exhaling","gaia","galaxy","god","infinity","inhale","inhaling","milky-way","pulsating","time-and-space","universe"],"id":415649,"author_id":"Oliver+Gaspirtz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}