Cosmos Quote by Christopher Hitchens

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

— Robert Briffault

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what…

— Carl Sagan

The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth.…

— Brian Swimme

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood…

— Michael Shermer

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have…

— Karen Armstrong

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them…

— Gerald Hausman

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the…

— Jane Caputi

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the…

— Baz Luhrmann

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused…

— Marvin Minsky

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to…

— Neil MacGregor

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the…

— Brian Greene