“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.” — John Archibald Wheeler 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
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
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
“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
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle 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
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe;… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
“The study of the universe as a whole is a unique enterprise. At least in one sense one is seeking to understand… — 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 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 Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“A strange mixture of disbelief and complete trust washed over me. On the one hand, I had no way to explain what… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image