Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is irrelevant whether or not there are other forms of life in the Galaxy or in other galaxies. The fact that… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is… — Carl Sagan 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
“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both… — Rudolf Karl Bultmann Copy Share Image
“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average… — Steven J. Dick 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
“[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
“Creation is not simply past; it is not just associated with "the beginning.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“Although that might seem inconsetuqntial, a 1 percent difference can be significantly big in cosmology. And the recently launched Planck observatory should… — Shing-Tung Yau Copy Share Image
