Quotes About Cosmic

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

I don't think I can even imagine what a culture that's been developing steadily for a billion years ought to be like. Disembodied electrical essences, maybe. Ghostly creatures flitting in and out of the eighth, ninth, and tenth dimensions. Cosmic minds that know all, perceive all, understand all. Maybe

From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals.

It's nothing personal, the universe might say.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

We are made of starstuff.

We are all star stuff.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

We ourselves are made of Stardust.

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Brahman and I are buddies.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

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.

We are wanderers, place shifters, the cosmic homeless. This is not a modern truth, and Achilles is not some new kind of existentialist hero. It is the oldest truth of all, surviving uncomfortably into the modern world of cities and overkings, diplomacy and accommodation, the power structures and the proliferation of stuff which the Mediterranean world provides.

God has a bucketful of freckles, and when he's done making babies in heaven, he lines them up right before they're born and sprinkles freckles on them for good luck.

We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.

The immortalist thesis is that the time has come for the race to get rid of the intimidating gods in its own head -- grow up out of our cosmic inferiority complex (no more dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return...), bring our disguised desire into the open, and go after what we want, the only state of being we will settle for, which is divinity.

with the behavior of the universe before the Big Bang a nearly mirror image of its behavior after the Big Bang. Until fourteen billion years ago, the universe was contracting. It reached a minimum size at the Big Bang (which we call t = 0) and has been expanding ever since, like a Slinky that falls to the floor, reaches a maximum compression upon impact, and then bounces back to larger dimensions.

See, as it happens, I've got a couple of front row tickets for the end of the universe. I thought it'd be best to use them now. I mean, you never know... There may not be a second performance.

Vishnu is therefore Shrivatsa, the one whose abode is Lakshmi. Where he is, so is she.

Thus, metaphysically, Kalki will destroy everything, even death. He will destroy all structures so that none exist. In other words, he will herald Pralaya.

The ordinal directions are represented by the moon (the north-east), the sun (the south-west), fire (the north-west) and wind (the south-east).