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“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”

Men Mean Able Universe Goal Justice Decision Business Compassion Doubt Enlightenment Machines Determine Spread Consideration Avenues

Author:Lewis Strauss

“The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.”

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”

Giving May Hate Fighting Universe Understanding Goal Modern Birth Machines Intelligent Strive Height Climbing Aspire Modern Life Intelligent Machines

Book:Past, Present, and Future

Source: Past, Present, and Future

“And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.”

Ifs Giving Heart Law Universe Goal Devotional Universal Laws Repayment Repaying

Author:Bear Grylls

“What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.”

Two Happens Purpose Universe Process Goal Creation Theory Intelligent Scary Explanation Living Things Creation Science

Author:Duane Gish

“The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.”

Universe Causes Goal Impossible Infinite Finals Philosopher Endless Useless Climbing Backwards Ladders Attainment Rendering Recurring Climbing Up

Book:Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

Source: Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

Science Universe Understanding Goal Simple Ability To Adapt Space Aliens Understanding The Universe

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”

Enough Desire Humanity Universe Goal Description Quests Justification Continuing Desire For Knowledge

Author:Stephen Hawking

“That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.”

Kind Book Happens Universe Force Goal Steps Alive Written Stage Honestly Vulnerable Imperfect Mentality Just Being

Author:Dan Mangan

“The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.”

Shows Universe Goal Glory Ultimate Glory Of God Ultimate Goal

Book:What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

“I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.”

Thinking Want Needs Feelings Universe Goal Pinnacle

Author:Charles Roven

“[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.”

Men Giving Matter Philosophy Hands Universe Goal Amount Shapes Mathematical Academic Coats Spiders Spit Affirming

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939