Quotes About Universe

Big History is the story of how you and I came to be.

know about the brain's hardware and software. How does the firing of a nerve or a series of nerves get translated into a thought or a feeling? This is one of the deepest mysteries of science, as amazing to me as questions about the origin of the universe.

People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn't agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of 'the universe' in this regard.

Chutes and Ladders was perhaps the most sadistic board game ever invented. Adults loathed the game; children loved it. The universe thus dictated that an adult invariably got snookered into playing the game with a child.

Some of the stars seemed to flutter, others to burn with more steadiness.

I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.

In view of this, it may seem remarkable that anything as complex as a text of Hamlet exists. The observation that Hamlet was written by Shakespeare and not some random agency only transfers the problem. Shakespeare, like everything else in the world, must have arisen (ultimately) from a homogeneous early universe. Any way you look at it, Hamlet is a product of that primeval chaos.

There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.

Chci sou?asnÄ› obývat malé, bezvýznamné tÄ›lo a ohromný nezbadatelný vesmír. Chci si odžít svuj nezbadatelný ?as a chci se pokusit žít v??ne. Chci jíst a spát a pracovat a založit si rodinu a umÃ…â"¢ít, ale zárove? nechci být nikdy víc tÄ›lem nežli duchem.

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Hay más cosas en el cielo y en la Tierra, Horacio, de las que contempla tu filosofía.

And so you see, dear reader, the death of my friend Sophie forced me to realize that the whole universe is one big concentration camp run by God -- the biggest Nazi of them all! So slavery in Virginia wasn't all that bad. And it was really God's fault anyway. Pretty good tragic insight there. Think I'll crank some Bellamy Brothers and get loaded!

A human being," Einstein once wrote, "is part of the whole called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness . . .

Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.

Um acaso cósmico. Um desvio singular. Distendido nas curvaturas, pesos, asperezas e movimentos!

And how can we talk of order overall when the very placement of the stars leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?

The world is everything that is the case.

Und hinter allem? Hinter allem, was du Gott, Strom und Stern, Nacht, Spiegel oder Kosmos und Hilde oder Evelyn nennst – hinter allem stehst immer du selbst.Eisig einsam. Erbärmlich. Groß. Dein Gelächter. Deine Not. Deine Frage. Deine Antwort. Hinter allem,uniformiert, nackt oder sonstwie kostümiert, schattenhaft verschwankt, in fremder fast scheuer ungeahnt grandioser Dimension: Du selbst. Deine Liebe. Deine Angst.Deine Hoffnung.

It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality

David: And you think it can just evaporate? Even if at one time they loved one another? Marx: That's one of the sad truths of existence. Nothing in this world is permanent. Even the characters created by the great Shakespeare will, in millions of years, cease to exist—when the universe runs its course and the lights go out.

Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.

La amenaza ovni Convendría recordar igualmente que cuando hablamos de ¨vida¨ en otros planetas, nos referimos casi siempre a los aminoácidos, que nunca son muy sociables, no si quiera en las fiestas.

What's so menacing about the universe? The size. Of course I was smaller then.