Quotes About Cosmos

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

The cosmos seems oblivious to time. It only matters to us. Consciousness is time-constituting. We build time up out of instantaneous impressions that flow in through our sensory organs at each moment. Then they recede into the past. What is this thing we call the past? It is a system of records encoded in our nerve tissue—records that tell a consistent story.

There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes—that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by many other Narratives besides ours. Each Narrative looks like a cosmos alone, to any consciousness that partakes of it. The Geometers came from other Narratives—until they came here, and joined ours.

heliocentric orbits, come too close to the sun's heat

Arjuna asteroid.

The universe was a disorderly mess, the only interesting bits being the organized anomalies.

The end state of all this would be a Dyson sphere:

An amanuensis is more than a recording device. An amanuensis is a consciousness-bearing system, and so what it observes in its cosmos has effects in others.

Wolf-Rayet stars

You're saying that my consciousness extends across multiple cosmi," I said. "That's a pretty wild statement.

How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?

Tiny places have all the drama and beauty necessary for a universe.

We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.

So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Matter tells space how to curve; space tells matter how to move.?

In the beginning, there was physics.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it's a precious mote and, for the moment, it's the only home we have.

informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

The four most common chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth. We are not simply in the universe. The universe is in us.