Gravitational Lensing

 "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth.  I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth.  I didn't feel like a giant.  I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong

Sonification of a black hole

 "I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in an apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca