Quotes About Cosmos

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

In short, believers in the standpoint that the entire universe runs like a perfect clock dismiss the notion that anything is fundamentally random.

Hence, Einstein's equations beautifully connect the stuff of the universe with the shape of the universe.

Heraclitus mocked conventional religious belief, and held that the cosmos was its own maker and creator: "The Cosmos was not made by gods nor men, but always was, and is, and ever shall be, ever living fire, igniting in measures and extinguishing in measures.

And if the universe is tuned so that consciousness can emerge and evolve, this implies that intelligent life has probably emerged on countless billions of other planets - so humans would have no special status in the design.

We are conscious observers of the universe. Even if the universe as a whole possesses no consciousness, we do. In this sense we can be said to be a part of the consciousness of the universe, or of its self-consciousness.

The day before yesterday we were atoms in the heart of a burning star - yesterday we were dust in a collapsing proto-star - today we are living humans - tomorrow we may be soil, beetles, grass, trees, birds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

That's where we are," he said. "One star amongst four hundred billion.

the universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being.

The universe doesn't do random.

This wasn't a way of getting over a passing crush on your older sister's swain. This was the moon of Jupiter and the sun of Venus aligning in the sky over her head.

I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Só uma nuvem te separa das estrelas

Oh, those stars, Those stars, that too far up from human blame To clear themselves, or careless of the charge, Still bear upon their shining shoulders all The guilt men shift upon them!

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

The future was as unfathomable as the black holes between the stars at night.

The cosmos is the ordering of number. Perception is the imaging of form contained in the potential of number. Robert Lawlor

The sky was black, deep, infinite, the very thing that scared the Greeks and all the other ancients.

Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?