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Quotes About Existence

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.
~ Walter Russell
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
~ James Bryce
It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.
~ Robert Jastrow
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
~ Huston Smith
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
~ John Burroughs
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.
~ Sigmund Freud
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
~ Ray Bradbury
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'
~ Leo Tolstoy
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
~ Keith Floyd
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.
~ Daniel Quinn
One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
~ Stephen Hawking
Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.
~ Dan Brown
Religion and science look at reality differently.
~ Robert Lanza
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
~ Julian Huxley
How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?
~ Louis Pasteur
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
~ Carl Sagan
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
~ Robert Lanza
The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.
~ Abraham Maslow
There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.
~ Frederick Lenz
A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
~ Henri Poincare
Metaphysics is a science.
~ Gabriel Marcel