Quotes About Universe

Leto did not respond. His thoughts were lost in memories of night—the one just past and the millennial others which crowded his pasts—clouds and stars, the rains and the open blackness pocked with glittering flakes from a shredded cosmos, a universe of nights, extravagant with them as he had been with his heartbeats.

the universe is created by the participation of consciousness

A visão monocular do nosso universo diz que você não deve buscar muito longe os seus problemas. Esses problemas talvez nunca cheguem. Em vez disso, cuido do lobo que está dentro do seu território. As alcateias que vagam lá fora talvez nem sequer existam.

Do we not live in the shadow of the most dangerous creation the universe has ever seen? Dangerous creation… Their own mother refuses to live on the same planet with them!

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence. His knife, if it brought the deaths of the twins, would only reverberate against that void, weaving new complexities to echo through human history, creating new surges of chaos, inviting humankind to attempt other forms of order and disorder.

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. —ASSESSMENT OF IX, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! While you cause a granular universe to persist in your awareness, you are blind to movement. When things change, your absolute universe vanishes, no longer accessible to your self-limiting perceptions. The universe has moved beyond you. —FIRST DRAFT, ATREIDES MANIFESTO, BENE GRESSERIT ARCHIVES

The universe neither threatens nor promises. It holds things beyond our sway: the fall of a meteor, the eruption of a spiceblow, growing old and dying. These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death.

The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. —THE AZHAR BOOK; SHAMRA I:4

world being the sum of many things—the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns—the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now?

Thufir, old friend," Paul said, "as you can see, my back is toward no door." "The universe is full of doors," Hawat said.

La maggior parte delle discipline nascondono effetti negativi, essendo concepite non per liberare, bensì per limitare. Non chiedete Perché? E siate cauti col Come? Perché? conduce inesorabilmente al paradosso. Come? v'intrappola in un universo di causa ed effetto. Entrambi negano l'infinito. Gli Apocrifi di Arrakis

And … someday … Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

Una de las cosas mas peligrosas en el universo es un pueblo ignorante con motivos reales de resentimiento. Pero no hay nada tan peligroso como una sociedad informada e inteligente que mantenga esos resentimientos.

One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances. The damage that vengeful intelligence can wreak, you cannot even imagine.

Fii cu b?gare de seam?! Mintea celui ce crede este o minte care stagneaz?. Nu se dezvolt? spre exterior, într-un univers infinit.

Mediante tu creencia en las singularidades granulares, deniegas todo movimiento… evolutivo o degenerativo. La creencia fija un universo granular y hace que ese universo persista. No puede permitirse que cambie nada porque de esa forma nuestro universo no moviente se desvanece. Pero se mueve por sí mismo cuando tú no te mueves. Evoluciona más allá de ti y ya no te resulta accesible.

Frank J. Tipler

We are no exception: the physical laws apply to everything.

very simple way

we can think of determinism as working backward as well as forward in time.

What is happening in the universe and multiverse today is determined by the goal in the far future that has been set for the universe and the multiverse.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The universe God called into being has in it these two great divisions—the world of spirits and the world of matter.