Cosmology Quotes · Page 2

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

— Albert Einstein

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

— Frederick Lenz

I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.

— Frederick Lenz

“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

— Fred Van Lente

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

“We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...”

— Kehinde Sonola

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an…

— Frederick Lenz

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

— John Banville

“[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.”

— Terence E. Fretheim

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

— Frederick Lenz

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state…

— Frederick Lenz

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read…

— Augusten Burroughs

“[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.”

— Terence E. Fretheim

“If physics and cosmology are truly sciences, then there exists a body of excellent evidence that the scale and the varieties of…

— Marilynne Robinson

“When the underlying dream changes, when we successfully remove the blinders of the old cosmological conditioning, we will be able to apply…

— Amy McTear

Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that…

— Martin Rees

“In some universes, all possible pasts funnel towards a single fixed ending, Ω. It you are of millenarian bent, you might call…

— Yoon Ha Lee

At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing…

— Gemma Chan

“Sin and evil have their origins in the human will, not in God or in God's plan. At the same time, when…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“I love cosmology: there’s something uplifting about viewing the entire universe as a single object with a certain shape. What entity, short…

— John D. Barrow

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe…

— Carl Sagan

“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which…

— Nikola Tesla

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for…

— Stephen W. Hawking

“For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things.…

— R. Joseph Hoffmann

A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no…

— Victor J. Stenger

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history…

— Richard Lewontin

“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we…

— Sean Carroll

We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars…

— Carl Sagan

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

— Giordano Bruno

“I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.”

— Vera C. Rubin

“The Center of Center is but one. The Center is more interior than any Circumference.”

— Dionysius Andreas Freher

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

— Randy Newman

To be a true scientist, is to begin reading the book from the end.

— Savannah Yates

“We r not BIG than one grain of SAND, also We r not SMALL than UNIVERSE!”

— Serkan Kilic

“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?”

— John Milton