Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within… — Robert Nozick 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
Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.” — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are… — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to… — George F. R. Ellis 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
“The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source,… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna 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
“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
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
“Religious discourse was not intended to be understood literally because it was only possible to speak about a reality that transcended language… — Karen Armstrong 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
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in the definition of Religion is there a mandate for religions to self-challenge or revamp their theological positions based on new… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“The creational scale—in tandem with sacred vowels—was used to fashion the universe and all life herein. The world, you might say, was… — Sol Luckman 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
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 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
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image