Quotes About Universe

But, for some reason, the laws of their universe didn't allow them to openly oppose you. All they would do was smile fixedly and try to tell you not to take so many classes and, if you smiled fixedly back for long enough, they would eventually sign the petition.

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Desert does not refer in any literal way to the ecosystem that, for lack of water, is hostile to life. The Desert is the affect that motivates the search for other instances of life in the universe and technologies for seeding planets with life;

The universe was very beautiful. I looked out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

A world of complexity in that syllable.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable

All iron comes from stars," Seeker replied, her hand still not quite brushing the hilt of the blade. "It's the last element they can burn before they go nova. Iron's the skeletons of stars, and it's what makes our blood red. I

He understands, also, that this offer represents a fundamentally wrong order to the universe. You should bow down and worship Jeoffry! "Right," the devil says. "I thought as much.

When the massive door swung open, though, and the puff of escaping air sailed them grandly into the crooked sunlight between the world's vast webworked cables, Rien forgot everything but the cold black fire-pricked vault of the universe stretching out forever, and the wheeling world that framed it on each side.

I made a grab for the fabric of the universe and hauld myself into a stable orientation.

If the universe had been bent on handling an example of the exact opposite of who I was, it couldn't have found a better one.

This was as good a spot to try a little meditation on the shape of the universe as I was likely to find, so I settled in, loosened my suit up a bit, and made myself comfortable.

Call it the universe of the Prometheans' goal-if they wish to shape the stories, I wish not to be shaped by them.

The cosmic irony of the moment didn't elude him.

Space: still ridiculously big.

It amused me momentarily to think of those dark matter laceworks of mass as actual cobwebs, structures spun for some purpose, then abandoned and left behind when that purpose served and their denizens moved on. It was a conceit, of course: I didn't imagine for an instant that some godlike creature or species had actually-literally or figuratively-pulled the universe out of its ass. But the image entertained me.

The masculine and feminine elements, exactly equal and balancing each other, are as essential to the maintenance of the equilibrium of the universe as positive and negative electricity, the centripetal and centrifugal forces, the laws of attraction which bind together all we know of this planet whereon we dwell and of the system in which we revolve.

Earth is indeed a crossroads in our galaxy.

Four houndred billion suns spiraling through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic carousel. The carousel itself a speck in the cosmos. And here I am in this small clearing, on the surface of the heart, as transient and unnoticed to the universe as the dry blades of grass that are poking into my shirt. It's too much to comprehend up there, too enormous, and I'm so small when it's on top of me. It frightens me, like I'm being crushed.

Believe instead in love. It is my faith that love shaped the universe as you shape your clocks, delighting in creation. I believe that just as you wish to give me your clock in love, refusing payment, so God loves me and gave Himself for me. That is my faith. I cannot presume to force it upon you, I can only ask you in friendship to consider it.

The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.

For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one's ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.

There is no God. Wait. I take that back, there is a God. There must be. The universe is just too perverse -- there must be an idiosyncratic mind at the helm.

Souls may be endemic to this part of the universe,' Aeng said, 'but so are flies. Flies far out at sea. Flies on mountaintops.