Quotes About Cosmos

Monism: The metaphysical position that ultimately the cosmos and everything in it is One Thing with a single unified set of natural laws that guide it. Saying that the entire universe is composed of only atoms that are managed by the universal laws of physics is a monistic statement. Materialism is a form of Monism.

Are good and evil of importance to the universe or only to man?

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

Outer space is everything.

Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

This animal body, for all its susceptibility and vertigo, remains the primary instrument of all our knowing, as the capricious earth remains our primary cosmos.

All I know is that there is comfort in knowing one's place in the universe, even if that means our light is less beautiful than it otherwise would have been. What say you, then, of the night sky?

for one moment in time, two lonely astronauts floating in space, finally find each other.

we inhabit a universe that is nuclear powered. All the stars draw energy from nuclear reactions;

The universe is computing its own destiny.

We hang here, inquisitive carbon-based life forms, knowing that every atom of carbon now in our bodies was once in the interior of a star.

James Kallas says: Since the cosmos itself is in bondage, depressed under evil forces, the essential content of the word "salvation" is that the world itself will be rescued, or renewed, or set free. Salvation is a cosmic event affecting the whole of creation. … Salvation is not simply the overcoming of my rebellion and the forgiveness of my guilt, but salvation is the liberation of the whole world process of which I am only a small part.20

Christ has in principle freed the cosmos from its demonic oppression and thus freed all inhabitants of the cosmos who will simply submit to this new loving reign.

1270We are all composed of stardust or, if you're feeling a tad more cynical, solar excrement.

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

If we consider the scale of the universe, we begin to see just how ridiculous belief in astrology can be.

a little run in the sheer black of the universe

That's the beauty of the universe. There's always a new mystery.

We are star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

But the term of man and woman, of king or queen, is set in the stars, and there is no escaping Doom for any one;