The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
“We depend on our description of the world for everything we perceive. As a result, nothing new can be allowed to threaten… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“You are an integral part of this precious opportunity to take part in the collaboration of a world. Despite the cacophonous cast… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“If the standard model is correct, the universe started in a state of high density and temperature, with all matter and radiation… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Like the microscopic strands of DNA that predetermine the identity of a macroscopic species and the unique propertires of its members, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is very little hope for life of any kind surviving the big crunch in a closed universe. However, one cannot be… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
“Waves are everywhere in the existence of time, matters and beyond everything as well which is defined as an illusion. If we… — Tanveer Hossain Mullick Copy Share Image
“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“We have colluded with a world that denies our true nature, making it an unsustainable world. In our growing up as a… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“One way in which a recurrence of life can occur is in the event that the cycle of the big bang and… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Indeed, it is not clear whether it is meaningful to talk about 'after' the big crunch, just as it is not clear… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The precise structure and description of the Galaxy is quite complicated with many unsolved problems. However, from the point of view of… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology… — L.-Z. Fang Copy Share Image
“The steady state theory is aesthetically and philosophically pleasing to many people, to whom it is a matter of regret that observations… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future)… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image