Galaxies Quotes

Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed...but a woman is always a woman. - James T Kirk

With so much irregular structure in the outer Galaxy, it looks as though the Milky Way is still growing, by cannibalizing smaller galaxies that fall into it. - Mario Juric

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. - Dr. Carl Sagan

What this does is give us a step toward understanding why the galaxies in the universe look the way they do. - Steve Allen

We've never seen anything like this. This unusual galaxy has ejected an enormous amount of dust to cover itself with a cloud brighter than any we've seen around other galaxies. - Charles Engelbracht

We will get incredible new insight into how galaxies were first formed. Once we start operating, we should be making breakthrough discoveries on an almost daily basis. - David Hughes

We went through hundreds of thousands of galaxies to find a 1-in-1,000 phenomenon. - Adam Bolton

We studied the properties of galaxies close to the Milky Way instead of looking billions of light years away. It's like traveling from Seattle to Portland, Ore., rather than from Seattle to New York, to measure the Earth's curvature. - Fabio Governato

We removed everything we knew---all the stars and galaxies both near and far. We were left with a picture of part of the sky with no stars or galaxies, but it still had this negative glow with giant blobs that we think could be the glow from the very first stars. - John Mather