Quotes About Cosmos

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Well, there's nothing hereafter. We are even madder than the fools who kill themselves for a woman. When the earth splits to pieces in space like a dry walnut, our works won't add one atom to its dust.

Humans... You want a nice warm hug from a cold, indifferent universe.

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.

this is the one world we will ever know. 5.

When I consider … the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me ['l'infinie immensité des espaces que j'ignore et qui m'ignorent'], I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? Pascal, Pensées

La nuit semblait une paupière bleue tirée sur l'œil infini du mystère.

The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]

There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.

Turning the planet into what astrophysicists called a pocket nova.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust." Still

Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who

In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

the birth of our universe was a one-performance event, and we weren't there in the audience.

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions. Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they're rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

Evidently, the fundamental laws of nature do not pin down a single and unique universe. According to the current thinking of many physicists, we are living in one of a vast number of universes. We are living in an accidental universe. We are living in a universe uncalculable by science.

I am dizzy with infinity.