Quotes About Dark Matter

#1. Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Nathan Wolfe

#2. Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body every year. The effects of every individual interaction are pretty negligible, so don't worry about getting a dark matter stomachache.

Sean Carroll

#3. I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#4. The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Stephen Hawking

#5. The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

John Banville

#6. Dark matter or invisible element?
You decide.

Toba Beta

#7. When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

Richard P. Feynman

#8. [Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

E. O. Wilson

#9. Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

Dave Davies

#10. The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in some sense, the lowest octave of a vibrating string.

Michio Kaku

#11. Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

Fabiola Gianotti

#12. In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Carol Anshaw

#15. Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them.

James Altucher

#16. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

Matt Haig

#19. I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above in another dimension, we would not be able to see it. It would be invisible, yet we would feel its gravity. Hence, it might explain dark matter.

Michio Kaku

#21. Dark matter, which is invisible to us and yet is believed to account for 90 per cent, or more, of all the matter in the universe. Dark matter was first theorized in the 1930s by Fritz Zwicky,

Bill Bryson

#22. Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

Jodi Picoult

#23. We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

Fabiola Gianotti

#24. Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

Talulah Riley

#25. I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Geoffrey West

#26. If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

Shea Hembrey

#27. Two minutes worth of signal analysis told me all I needed to know. This station "talks" to the dark matter universe about what goes on inside."
"How did you cobble together a jammer so quickly?"
"I had one on me.

Howard Tayler

#28. Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

Lisa Randall

#29. I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. So, in a sense, looking under the lamppost for dark matter is appropriate.

Lisa Randall

#31. All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Janette Turner Hospital

#32. That is, cosmic dark matter enjoys about six times the mass of all the visible matter.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#33. It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.

Graham Hancock

#34. All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it ...

Lisa Randall

#35. I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.

Michio Kaku

#36. Isn't the universe full of gaseous elements?"
Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.

Michael Cunningham

#37. Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

Nicola Yoon

#38. A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

Lorrie Moore

#39. Nevertheless, remembering how the curate described what existed before creation, Scully saw dark matter out there, thick, unknowable, aching to made into a world.

Toni Morrison

#40. I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

Lisa Randall

#41. From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

Fabiola Gianotti

#42. Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#43. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.

Alice Hoffman

#44. " ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

Luther L. Bohanon

#45. No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

Norman Vincent Peale

#46. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#47. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#48. The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And broadcast shows tend to be more mainstream or middle-of-the-road.

Robert Greenblatt

#49. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Willa Cather

#50. We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

Langston Hughes

#51. Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.

Vik Muniz

#52. There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

Pink Floyd

#53. Nora's gaze was steady. "No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light. That's what I passed on to you and Caroline, my moments of light.

Kristin Hannah

#54. You saw me through a stained-glass window? How'd you pull that off'
'I could find someone as beautiful as you no matter where you hide. You're so radiant, I bet you even glow in the dark.

Josephine Angelini

#55. Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.

Seth Shostak

#56. Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

Erin Morgenstern

#57. When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

Douglas Brinkley

#58. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

Janice Galloway

#59. Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. "I will stay and Michael can go." Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn't let him die.

Willow Cross

#60. No matter how damaged we were by our lives, we are whole when we are together

Jaden Wilkes

#61. Once again, there was a terrorist attack inside my mouth.

Namekojirushi

#62. Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult ... to day is merely the passing outcome of yesterday's nonsense. How you feel today, and what you give your attention to, builds tomorrow.

James Arthur Ray

#63. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

Dana Arcuri

#64. every shape and mode of matter lends Its force to the omnipotence of mind, Which from its dark mine drags the gem of truth To decorate its paradise of peace.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#65. The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.
Love just keeps on looking.
Love is forever tries.

Anna White

#66. Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

Robert Jordan

#67. No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.

San Juan De La Cruz

#68. But what the hell, I thought as I lay there in the dark. It could be souls rot away with the body, too. What did anything matter in the long run anyway, except memories? And they only lived on in corpses that couldn't talk.

Will Viharo

#69. We all have that inner fear of the dark, no matter how old we get. It's an ingrained instinct to fear the velvety blackness of the night, of things you can't quite see, but know deep down in your bones is there, waiting.

Apryl Baker

#70. No matter how dark life can be, it's how we react to it that matters. Love & forgiveness instead of hate and fear, create in us a garden of healing.

Kathy Goodhew

#71. This is not a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of one woman's very real struggle through a world against her, the people who hurt her, her real life demons and the people who showed her that every gray sky, no matter how dark, has a sun waiting to break through.

S.L. Jennings

#72. I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

Chuck Palahniuk

#73. I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#74. While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we know is true no matter what we feel.

Sheila Walsh

#75. She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

Ahdaf Soueif

#76. If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.

Donald Miller

#77. I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.

Marcel Proust

#78. No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different..

Cate Tiernan

#79. When it's light versus dark, that doesn't matter. One shadow in a brightly lit room goes unnoticed, but shine a ray of light into even the darkest corner ... and everything changes.

Jeaniene Frost

#80. The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.

Ashly Lorenzana

#81. Oh, by the way, the plot: it almost slipped my mind. Charlie French bought my mother's pictures cheap and sold them dear to Binkie Behrens, then bought them cheap from Binkie and sold them on to Max Molyneaux. Something like that. Does it matter? Dark deeds, dark deeds. Enough.

John Banville

#82. One day the dark clouds of this time would lift, because morning always came. No matter how long and dark the night.

Karen Kingsbury

#83. All the characters ever written are already inside you. It's just a matter of accessing them and bringing them forward. And having no fear of the dark side.

Jane Lynch

#84. God searches for us, no matter what dark place we're in or what door we're behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him.

Bob Goff

#85. Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

John Irving

#86. Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.

Lorenzo Snow

#87. God created ... light and
dark, heaven and hell
science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created
everything in the universe with an opposite.
Including matter itself, antimatter

Dan Brown

#88. He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

Victoria Schwab

#89. No matter how dark it gets, the sun always rises eventually and starts a new day. The darkness is forgotten.

D. Nichole King

#90. No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

David Matthews

#91. But maybe that was what it meant to grow up and have the seemingly infinite possibility of childhood vanish in an instant. You had to press on, no matter how dark and narrow the path ahead seemed.

Martha Brockenbrough

#92. Maybe it's not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.

Anna White

#93. Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark. - Orion

Rick Riordan

#94. I love love stories, no matter how dark.

Abbie Cornish

#95. So much simpler, to kill for gold. It did not matter what anyone thought about that. The only rules he abided were those of the Old One, and she cared nothing for war beyond forcing mortals to consider the price of it.

F.T. McKinstry

#96. There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

Thomas Carlyle

#97. What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During

Justin Cronin

#98. no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Dave Pelzer

#99. I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always.

Steve Maraboli

#100. TIP #5: Never stop thinking. No matter how dark the times, a great idea can give you a hopeful light.

Rob Buyea