“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
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be… — Nicolaus Copernicus 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
“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
“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were… — Michael Brooks 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 suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart 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
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is… — Sten F. Odenwald 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
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
“I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.” — Vera C. Rubin Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz 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
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd 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
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
“Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is… — Xiaowei Wang 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
“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
