Quotes About Cosmos

To my mind, if the cosmos does not know the significance of life, then it is not God; and if there were no God beyond the cosmos, then all human history would be like dancing to the blind and singing to the deaf; and all noble thought and action would be like kissing a cold statue. I believed in a personal God, not because I wanted to project my personality upon God, but because to deprive Him of this attribute would be making the effect greater than the cause.

One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile Coiled and gleaming to the end of space And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

The trees were almost bare, making their branches appear as cracks in the cosmos.

The Church is a microcosm here in the earth of what humanity and the entire cosmos is really called to be - and we treat those who don't know the Truth according to their true identity as much as possible. Those who are not yet awakened to the fact that they are clean and forgiven before they even know to ask.

She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head.

the slow, the vast fall of the Cosmos backward through the Zodiac, the so-called precession of the equinoxes—that unimaginably stately grand tour which would take some twenty thousand years longer, until once again the spring equinox coincided with the first degrees of Aries: where conventional astrology for convenience's sake assumes it always to be, and where Hawksquill had found it fixed in her Cosmo-Opticon when she had first acquired the thing.

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There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Natural units tell us that in a well-defined sense the Universe is very old already, about 1060 Planck times old. Life on Earth didn't appear until after the Universe was 1059 Planck times old. We were a late arrival.

I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.' Freeman Dyson24

Another consequence of an old expanding universe, besides its large size, is that it is cold, dark and lonely. When any ball of gas or radiation is expanded in volume, the temperature of its constituents falls off in proportion to the increase in its size. A universe that is big and old enough to contain the building blocks of complexity will be very cold and the levels of average radiant energy so low that space will everywhere appear dark.

If we were to smooth out all the material in the Universe into a uniform sea of atoms we would see just how little of anything there is. There would be little more than about 1 atom in every cubic metre of space. No laboratory on Earth could produce an artificial vacuum that was anywhere near as empty as that. The best vacuum achievable today contains approximately 1000 billion atoms in a cubic metre.

there could be more than three dimensions of space but they had to be small and unchanging if they were to avoid altering the character of the world that we experience.

The Sunne who goes so many miles in a minut, The Starres of the Firmament, which go so very many more, goe not so fast, as my body to the earth.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.