“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The Center of Center is but one. The Center is more interior than any Circumference.” — Dionysius Andreas Freher Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.” — Vera C. Rubin Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an… — Frederick Lenz 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
“[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise.… — Brian Goedken 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
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
Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve… — Frederick Lenz 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
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“Machine Man faithfully believes that conscious intelligent life came by chance from unconscious, dumb and dead matter that nobody suddenly made out… — Arne Klingenberg 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
“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into… — Dan Garfat-Pratt 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
“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
I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to… — Carl Sagan 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
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When the truths are lying down with the knowledge of spiritualenlightenment. universe, cosmology, existence, darkmatter are beyond science innovation invention. -T∆NV€€®” — Tanveer Hossain Mullick Copy Share Image
Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is. — Margaret Geller 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
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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