Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as… — Brian Goedken 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
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings. — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
“Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality… — Don Cupitt 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
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
When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer 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
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
“Sadly, Our Dispirited Dream often conditions us to conform to a safe path rather than journey through the unknown in resonance with… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
“For many thousands of years, human beings have wondered and asked questions about the distant past and the remote future of our… — Dan Hooper Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an… — Carl Sagan 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
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We r not BIG than one grain of SAND, also We r not SMALL than UNIVERSE!” — Serkan Kilic Copy Share Image