My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. —J. B. S. Haldane More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: reality simplicity universe complexity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: universe fairness wickedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. —Maxine Hong Kingston More about this quote Tags: mind learning universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We cannot imprison the mind in the brain. The mind is in every cell of our body and also extends into the whole universe. —Deepak Chopra More about this quote Tags: mind universe body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life universe tragedy grace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: perspective preciousness universe disagreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. —Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume More about this quote Tags: happiness universe self-centeredness attitude unhappiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a raccoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception. —Terence McKenna More about this quote Tags: wonder truth universe hubris cosmos absurdity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. —Andre Malraux More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery prison universe stars Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: delusion life reality world universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. —Max Frisch More about this quote Tags: technology experience universe protection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? —Jacques Lacan More about this quote Tags: love romance universe generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. —Edward P. Tryon More about this quote Tags: wonder purpose coincidence universe reason randomness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email