The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Your body and my body are both totally made up of and dependent upon the elements of the earth—the water, the air,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are… — Airto Moreira Copy Share Image
I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that's what life is about--the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves,… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
“We are focus-points of consciousness, [...] enormously creative. When we enter the self-constructed hologrammetric arena we call spacetime, we begin at once… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right,… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image