“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.” PeopleHas BeensRealHardBodyLawScienceGivenHeavenSimplePlanetsMachinesRoundsVariousObstaclesLabourSpheresFluidCircuitsImpervious Author:Tycho Brahe
“HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.” ChildrenDoneEarthUniverseGivenPrayerAnimalPlanetsBalanceHarmonyVery GoodInsightCosmosOur Planet Book:The Temple of My Familiar Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.” PeopleMindStatesMightEarthGivenTeacherPlanetsThousandLifetimeEnlightenedState Of MindDozenPlanet Earth Author:Frederick Lenz
“I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that.” KnowsShouldRealMightHappensEarthCertainGivenAnswersWonderfulPlanetsPopsBillionsEstatesGalaxyPristine Author:Paul Davies
“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.” MenHumansHas BeensArtCountryMightAgeJoyValuesGivenDecisionPowerfulCommonSunForeverPlanetsPleaseAnd LoveRoundsAffectionCirclesHuman LifeOur FamilyBrutalRuinedOccasionalHereafterLifelessPowerful Man Author:Bertrand Russell
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.” WorldHumansWellsGivenStarsBornNaturalAnimalSeaLandPlanetsDependsCivilizationCreaturesRelationPlantContemporaryWell BeingNatural World Author:Chellis Glendinning
“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.” ThinkingWorldNeedsMindPersonsIdeasShowsRunningSchoolYoungOpportunityGivenPlanetsDemandAuthorityEvidenceSacredTrainRationalBrethrenYoung Minds Author:Jack McDevitt
“The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.” YearsGivenHalfFourPlanetsPerspectiveFitBillionsObservationArrivalsNewcomers Author:Sylvia Earle
“If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.” IfsNeedsMomentsLife IsDesireGivenPlanetsEssenceUniversalMoments In Time Author:Gavin Newsom
“Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.” PeopleYearsChildrenHelpingOrderGivenPlanetsHelping OthersHelping Other People Author:Phyllis McGinley
“Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.” WorldWantBelieveLongWarCountryAbleGivenI BelievePovertySharePlanetsPeriodsInstinctProsperityNot SureRegionsCollaborationRationality Author:Carlo Rovelli
“Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether, it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.” WorldMatterWholeSeemsCoursesNextGivenSpaceGonePathPlanetsLimitsIncrediblesAccomplishExplanationRegionsCelestialMagnitudeCometsOrbs Author:Tycho Brahe