The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That which is revealed to man has been created for him only. That which he thinks he knoweth shall remain hidden until… — Kayambila Mpulamasaka Copy Share Image
“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch. — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Trying to change situations or conditions solely with action in the world would be like trying to fix an unwanted image in… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“If the laws of nature are unpredictably reassorted at the cusps (the transition from contraction to expansion of the universe), then it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Papuan ancestors never begged for survival. They engineered it. They did not ask the world for permission to exist; they organised their… — Yamin Kogoya Copy Share Image
“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“We also have to be particularly wary of imaginative thought processes for we can very easily create things and ideas in our… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings. — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
“[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
“The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image