Quotes About Existence

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

What is is what must be.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

The fatal futility of Fact.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.