Human beings Quote by Jonathan Nolan

We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not…

— Sean M. Carroll

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

— Carl Sagan

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

— Carl Sagan

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of…

— Thomas Nagel

The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

— Carl Sagan

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the…

— Edward Boyden

We are the universe experiencing itself.

— Carl Sagan

Between man and Universe is feeling and understanding.

— Mariana Fulger

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of…

— Julian Baggini

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“One of the most intriguing things about the universe, which probably cannot be explained by scientific investigations, is that it exists and we, who…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be…

— Terence McKenna