Acquisition Quote by Judy Cannato

The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all…

— Brian Swimme

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs,…

— Thomas Berry

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such…

— Anonymous

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

“Our understanding of the universe is like a story without a beginning or end where the reader is creating the plot as he is…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way…

— Jeanette Winterson

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same…

— Carl Sagan

The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in the phrase…

— Rodney Collin

“The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brain spill out, making us susceptible…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos…

— Lewis Mumford

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to…

— J. G. Ballard