Milky Way Quotes

• 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.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Universe
  • Lights
  • Milky Way

• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

  Forrest Mars, Jr.
  • Man
  • Way
  • Religious

• The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fortunate
  • Customs
  • Milky Way

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Space
  • Relation
  • Power Of God

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Earth
  • Creation
  • Milky Way

• Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • City
  • Dwelling
  • Milky Way

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

  

  Bart Bok
  • Galaxy
  • Milky Way
  • Watchman

• Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Paint
  • Planned
  • Milky Way

• 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.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • History
  • Universe
  • Idea