Accounts Quote by William James

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are…

— Seth Shostak

Our real discoveries come from chaos,

— Chuck Palahniuk

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While…

— Thomas Berry

“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you…

— Jason Daniel Chaplin

Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Now, why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the ability to be curious about themselves? That, surely, is…

— Marcus Chown

“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question…

— V.S. Ramachandran

We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms;…

— Carl Sagan

“For you to be here now, trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you.”

— Bill Bryson

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the…

— Martin Rees