Stephen Jay Gould

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

American Scientist

H. P. Lovecraft

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

American Novelist

Harold Brodkey

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

American Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

French Writer

Desmond Tutu

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

South African Leader

Dayananda Saraswati

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

Indian Leader

John Joly

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

Irish Scientist

Norman Mailer

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Honore de Balzac

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

French Novelist

William Blake

English Poet

Use 'immensity' to emphasize the overwhelming scale or impact of something.

Expressive Impact

'Immensity' often describes vast physical areas to highlight their extraordinary size.

Physical Spaces

Can also refer to non-physical concepts to stress their significant scale or seriousness.

Abstract Concepts

Implies that the size or degree of something is surprisingly larger than imagined.

Unexpected Scale

Can indicate the large magnitude of abstract qualities like strength, influence, or power.

Beyond Physical

Used to describe accomplishments or feats to highlight their significance or difficulty.

Describing Achievements

 Many of those stars have planets orbiting them. So how do we look for life in all that immensity? It's like searching for a needle in trillions of haystacks. We might want to focus our search on planets that we know can support life as we know it -- what we call habitable worlds. What do such planets look like?

A needle in countless...

 killer whales prey is bigger still the blue whale the largest animal ever to exist on the planet in ways both literal and figurative it is the largest challenge ever to face a predator and there's only one that there's to tackle their immensity on the face of it it

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 efforts that were happening around jakarta and it's just hard not to be moved by the kind of immensity of the people in that picture and you know they're kind of like hunger to get vaccinated it's really loud people are shouting uh the army are

Capturing the Year in an...

 I feel like a small dot, a speck of dust, stardust, floating in the middle of the cosmos, in the middle of nothing, in the immensity of space. It's a fascinating sensation, because when I look up, down, left, right, in front, behind,

The Exhilarating Peace...

 interrogate every new form of life we find, and any new biological attribute that we may find. We actually need to bring all of our intelligence to becoming stupid again -- clueless the immensity of the unknown.

To solve old problems,...

 which we, of course, simply have to address. I mean, can we build back better from this? I think before we can even start to answer that question, we just have to seek to understand the immensity of this moment.

The path to ending...

 you can on this use your imagination to imagine the immensity of the power that it took to thrust the ocean floor up onto the land I think I'll always be making work about the second point I have such a strong

Discover Ancient Wonders...

 looking back at creation. And for the first time in my life, I just felt viscerally connected to the universe in all of its immensity. Time stopped, or it just kind of felt nonexistent,

You owe it to yourself...

 And my work photographing death has not erased that. Death itself is rarely beautiful and the images I capture reflect that too. The grief I have seen, the immensity of the loss --

Why I photograph the...

 Such quiet beauty here, in these, my soft-voiced, stiff-limbed people; such resolve masked by each placid face. There is immensity required in growing small,