"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light."

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir up a tingling sensation, a slight challenge for the nerves, a faint foreboding, as if we were appr…"

"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."

"The greatest discoveries are often made by accident."