Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

Carl Sagan

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

Carl Sagan

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

Martin Rees

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.

Seth Shostak

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

Deepak Chopra

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

Paul Stamets

Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe.

Howard Bloom

How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?

Howard Bloom

How does the cosmos create? That's not just any question, it's 'the' question. It's the God Problem.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Mary Ellen Mark

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Debbie Allen

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Debbie Macomber

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Jeff Goldblum

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

Jeff Goldblum

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Blaise Pascal

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Celia Green

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Baruch Spinoza

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Andre Malraux

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.