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“The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.”

“Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.”

Universe Stars Century Theory Achievement Endure Insight Scales 20th Century Transient Large Scale Astrophysics Greatest Achievement

Author:Fred Hoyle

“It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.”

Spirit Dies Universe Achievement Praise Destroyed Triumph Slaying Olaf

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

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

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.”

Stills Suffering Universe Loses Buddhism Achievement All Things Center Of The Universe

Author:Frederick Lenz