Receding Quotes

“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”

“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.”

“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”

“I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.”

“Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.”

“The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.”

“You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.”