Quotes About Existence

And after the Earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it is burned t a crisp or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth

Somos el producto de una larga serie de accidentes biológicos. En la perspectiva cósmica no hay razón alguna para pensar que seamos los primeros, los últimos o los mejores.

Kozmos'u ÅŸöyle bir düÅŸünmek bile garip bir heyecan verir. Ä°nsan?n sesini soluÄŸunu kesen, ensesinden aÅŸa?? ürperti veren, bir boÅŸluÄŸa düÅŸüÅŸün hayal meyal an?msan??? gibi baÅŸ döndürücü bir duygudur bu. Çünkü tüm s?rlar?n en büyüÄŸünün kar??s?nda olman?n bilincindeyizdir.

We are made of starstuff. Some

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be. The

Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.

Fear of death, which in some respects is adaptive in the evolutionary struggle for existence, is maladaptive in warfare. Those cultures that teach an afterlife of bliss for heroes — or even for those who just did what those in authority told them — might gain a competitive advantage.

Para pequenas criaturas como nós, a imensidão é suportável apenas através do amor.

El universo no fue hecho a medida del hombre; tampoco le es hostil: es indiferente.

If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.

We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself

We humans might have evolved too far. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.

Cosmos is all That is, Or Ever Was, Or ever Will BE.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff

We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

and this second kind of god they called God in a very straightforward way…but by God, they meant something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories….equaled God. And by that all they meant were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return.

A vida é apenas uma visão momentânea das maravilhas deste assombroso universo, e é triste que tantos se desgastem sonhando com fantasias espirituais.

A idéia de que Deus é um gigante barbudo de pele branca sentado no céu é ridícula. Mas se, com esse conceito, você se referir a um conjunto de leis físicas que regem o Universo, então claramente existe um Deus. Só que Ele é emocionalmente frustrante: afinal, não faz muito sentido rezar para a lei da gravidade!

Para criaturas pequenas como nós, a vastidão só é suportável por meio do amor.

We are the way for the universe to know itself.

DNA'm?zdaki karbon, diÅŸlerimizdeki kalsiyum, kan?m?zdaki demir, içtiÄŸimiz sudaki oksijen kendi içine çökmüÅŸ bir y?ld?zdan yap?lm??t?r. Bu da biziy?ld?z tozu yapar.