Quotes About Cosmos

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

We ain't alone in this universe.We just don't wanna be disturbed.

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

Max Tegmark in his book Our Mathematical Universe.

Democritus (460-360 B.C.)— in reality there is nothing but atoms and space.

Our individual separateness is in a sense illusory; we are parts of the great stream of law and cause, parts of God; we are the flitting forms of a being greater than ourselves, and endless while we die. Our bodies are cells in the body of the race, our race is an incident in the drama of life; our minds are the fitful flashes of eternal light.

I am exceedingly anxious to meet and talk with you, whether you think yourself one of His works, or a particle drawn, of necessity, from eternal and necessary matter. Whatever you are, you are a worthy part of that great whole which I do not understand.82

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

I say to myself, at last you are in tune with the universe.

Qué estrella cae sin que nadie la mire?

Now Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table. "There are worlds within worlds," he said. "Macrocosm, microcosm.

Some things need no study, no learning, no repetition in pursuit of memory. They burn themselves into the eye and can be examined ever after in minute detail. Moreover it is their nature - as we cannot even think, without leaving a mark somewhere on the cosmos - to bring with them their own inescapable interpretation.

And then, suddenly, an extraordinary question rose in my mind, whether this stupendous globe of green fire might not be the vast Central Sun—the great sun, round which our universe and countless others revolve. I felt confused. I thought of the probable end of the dead sun, and another suggestion came, dumbly—Do the dead stars make the Green Sun their grave? The idea appealed to me with no sense of grotesqueness; but rather as something both possible and probable.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

It's turtles all the way down.

My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialise.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us;at the same time, look at any one of us in the vast space I am seeing out the window of this bus, which is a molecule on a cell on a flea on a hair on a wart of the known universe.