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Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.