Quotes About Existence

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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

Man's Place in Nature.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

We are made of starstuff.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.