Our galaxy’s pretty ordinary, garden-variety. So if we believe our galaxy has a super massive black hole, that tells us that most, if not all, galaxies host such a black hole at their centers. – Andrea M. Ghez
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. – A. R. Ammons
There’s a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there’s a central black hole. – Andrea M. Ghez
There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy. – Martin Rees
The first science fiction show on television was ‘Tales Of Tomorrow’ using scripts from the radio show ‘X-1’ which used stories from ‘Galaxy Magazine’ as its source material. – David Gerrold
The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That’s a bond that’s pretty special. – Cobi Jones
I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy. – Jonathan Frakes
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen. – Margaret Atwood
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we’d have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high. – John Rhys-Davies
If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart. – Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA’s Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.’s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special – it’s some sort of miracle. – Seth Shostak
‘E.T.’ was far-fetched. ‘E.T.’ was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that. – Seth Shostak
According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we’re sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. – Seth Lloyd
‘Sugarcoat the Galaxy’ is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace. – Thomas Newman
I’ve read the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ at least once a year since I was twelve years old. – Sean Biggerstaff
