Quotes About Cosmos

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

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

Knowledge is the currency of the universe.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

There was a herebefore and there will be a hereafter. Nothing in the universe, including the universe itself, can terminate entirely.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. —Shrii Shrii Anandamurti; Indian philosopher, social revolutionary, author, composer

The fact that so many thoughts could have gone through my head in 3.36 seconds is testament to the infinitude of an individual consciousness. There is no end to it, no way to measure it. Consciousness is like the cosmos multiplied by the number of people alive in the world (assuming that consciousness dies when we do, and it may not) because each of our minds is a cosmos of its own: unknowable, even to ourselves.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so. They are like whodunits after you know who did it. Does anyone reread a murder mystery? Whereas the cosmos has been mysterious to humans since long before we knew anything about astronomy or space—and, now that we do, is only more so.

Consciousness is like the cosmos multiplied by the number of people alive in the world (assuming that consciousness dies when we do, and it may not) because each of our minds is a cosmos of its own: unknowable, even to ourselves.