“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
“...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology… — L.-Z. Fang Copy Share Image
“Indeed, it is not clear whether it is meaningful to talk about 'after' the big crunch, just as it is not clear… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
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
“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Papuan ancestors never begged for survival. They engineered it. They did not ask the world for permission to exist; they organised their… — Yamin Kogoya Copy Share Image
We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We want union with something, even if the opposite seems true. Bring two atomic nuclei together and their positive electrostatic forces will… — Sean J. Halford Copy Share Image
“We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things.… — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction… — Larry Gottlieb 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
“One of the most intriguing things about the universe, which probably cannot be explained by scientific investigations, is that it exists and… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in… — Carl Sagan 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
Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data… — Edwin Powell Hubble 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
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of… — Frederick Lenz 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
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“In the vastness of space, in the vastness of geologic time, some say that nothing matters very much and few things matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Although that might seem inconsetuqntial, a 1 percent difference can be significantly big in cosmology. And the recently launched Planck observatory should… — Shing-Tung Yau 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
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; … It shows us how small… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image