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  • For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. -- Carl Sagan
  • The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. -- Robert Delaunay
  • Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. -- Maria Mitchell
  • There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. -- Emily Carr
  • Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? -- Jeb Bush
  • We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. -- Jaron Lanier
  • When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. -- Cat Stevens
  • But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. -- John Shelby Spong
  • Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. -- Carl Sagan
  • What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. -- David Eagleman
  • The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi. -- Criss Jami
  • In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. -- Carl Sagan
  • The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. -- Carl Sagan
  • In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. -- Carl Sagan
  • Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space. -- Johannes Kepler
  • She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. -- Carl Sagan
  • Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact. -- Carl Sagan
  • Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan
  • It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable. -- William Golding
  • Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. -- Carl Sagan
  • When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident. -- Edgar Mitchell
  • It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? -- Virginia Woolf
  • What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.... -- Christiaan Huygens
  • Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness. -- John Darnielle
  • The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. -- Iain McGilchrist
  • I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. -- David Eagleman
  • I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it. -- Raymond Bonner
  • When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country. -- Baz Luhrmann
  • When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God. -- Greg Boyle
  • Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own. -- Rick Perlstein
  • If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. -- James E. Faust
  • The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. -- James F. Cooper
  • I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself. -- Steven Erikson
  • The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space. -- Jim Lovell
  • It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone. -- Charles Bolden
  • Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. -- David Koepp
  • I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness. -- Douglas Lockwood
  • In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself. -- Suzanne Segal
  • A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always. -- Byron Katie
  • Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe? -- Gregory Colbert
  • An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
  • The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. -- Max Planck
  • The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. -- Ray Bradbury
  • That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void. -- Fabien Cousteau
  • I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment. -- Hark Herald Sarmiento
  • She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature. -- Camille Paglia
  • The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . . -- Dave Barry
  • Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed. -- John Mark Green
  • [Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... -- Coleman Barks
  • The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness. -- James Carlos Blake
  • Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning -- Priyavrat Thareja
  • You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell. -- Anthony de Mello
  • Stop and unplug, say I; look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world.Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces. -- Fennel Hudson
  • God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity. -- Moby
  • There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! -- Yann Martel
  • It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling. -- Lauren Oliver
  • When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya). -- Donna Farhi
  • Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone. -- Albert Einstein
  • In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective. -- Jaggi Vasudev
  • The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car -- Kim Edwards
  • She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought. -- Thomm Quackenbush
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  • A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human. -- Carolyn See
  • The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom. -- Joan Halifax
  • Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today. -- Narendra Modi
  • In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos] -- Carl Sagan
  • Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it. -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
  • This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. -- Meher Baba
  • men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky -- Matthew Fox
  • Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains. -- Eric Samuel Timm
  • Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed. -- Zhuangzi
  • Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute. -- Enza Vita
  • Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science. -- Luther Burbank
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