Quotes About Existence

Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind's—on the human condition.…

The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are responsible for the order and even the existence of the world. As Lucretius summarized their views, "Nature free at once and rid of her haughty lords is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods.

An oak tree and I are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor. The

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? —A question put to Pythagoras by Anaximenes (c. 600 B.C.), according to Montaigne

We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.

all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.

Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it. So I don't guffaw at the woman who visits her husband's grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It's not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she's talking to, that's all right. That's not what this is about. This is about humans being human.

When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists—at least your kind of god—and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

There was a time before television, before motion pictures, before radio, before books. The greatest part of human existence was spent in such a time.

Önümde ölüm ve sürekli kölelik bulunduÄŸuna göre, y?ld?zlar?n gizlerini araÅŸt?rma zahmetine neden gireyim?

No Satan, no God.

Geometry existed before the Creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Geometry is God Himself.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us - there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries

My favorite color: A pale blue dot suspended in a sunbeam...

We are made of stellar ash.

Are the worlds of more advanced civilizations totally geometrized, entirely rebuilt by their inhabitants? Or would the signature of really advanced civilization be that they left no sign at all?

This is all a big ball . . . turning in the middle of the sky . . . once a day. She tried to imagine it spinning, with millions of people glued to it, talking different languages, wearing funny clothes, all stuck to the same ball.

Los dioses no vienen a componer las cosas que nos salieron mal. Fíjese en la historia del hombre, y se dará cuenta de que siempre estuvimos solos

Evrim bir kuram deÄŸil bir olgudur.

But deep down, the the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

70 milyon y?l, bunun ancak milyonda birine eÅŸit bir süre yaÅŸayabilen insan için ne ifade eder? Yaln?zca bir güncük uçan ve günü sonsuzmuÅŸ gibi alg?layan kelebeklere benziyoruz

We are difficult to come by and a danger to ourselves.

On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal. It