“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.” ThinkingYearsHumansCultureUniverseCoursesHuman BeingsThousandImportanceDenyBillionsFifteenThousand YearsTheologianTheologicalLogical Thinking Author:John Polkinghorne
“Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.” WorldRealityLife IsUniverseBuddhismAbsolutesBillionsEndlessCosmosManifestSpinningOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.” PeopleWorldEarthUniverseBuddhismBillionsEndlessOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.” TryingFactsBodyUniverseEnjoyPiecesYour BodyBillionsCyclesMmaOrganismsSoupComponentsNever EndingBacteriaLiving OrganismsNever Ending Cycle Author:Joe Rogan
“You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.” MadeUniverseBillionsGalaxyCounting Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.” WorldGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensMadeReasonSeemsMightEarthFormOrderUniverseWaterChancePerfectAliveAtheismComfortableGloryAll ThingsClaimsHistoricalEightBillionsHeightCoveredMight Have BeenFascinationHubrisA Perfect WorldAbodeWhy MeContingencyOctopusHappy To Be Alive Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.” GivingBelieveHeartFactsEarthUniverseStarsAcceptingSunConceptsDon't BelieveDefinitionsBillionsTraditionalVisibleConstructsGalaxyIntriguingGod Image Author:Stanley Kubrick
“One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?” IfsWorldMindLittlesDoeEnoughTogetherUniverseForceBitsFourCrazyDesignFitLittle BitBillionsComplexityCosmosOur WorldGlimpseGalaxyPrecision Author:Morgan Freeman
“The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.” YearsFirstsMadeFactsUniverseStarsYears AgoConnectedNuclearBillionsAtomsExplosions Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.” YearsBelieveAgeEarthYoungUniverseTermIssuesScientistBillions Author:Norman Geisler
“In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.” WorldWholeEarthUniverseStarsSunKnowingListeningQuietMoonBillionsJust One Book:The Light of Discovery Source: The Light of Discovery
“You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms” ThinkingKnowsWorldBelieveWellsLooksKindDifferentSometimesFormNightTurnsUniverseAsksStarsAttitudeTalkingSkyTenMathBillionsEnormousHeightArroganceVisibleDifferent KindsGalaxySplendorNight SkyMy Attitude Author:Michio Kaku
“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.” YearsUniverseBillionsConclusionExpansionGalaxyVerifyDetectionSpeed Of LightWrong Conclusion Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.” YearsBelieveHumansStillsUniverseUnderstandingChristTeachingConditionsComplicatedBillionsI RealizedObjectivesHuman ConditionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Moby
“Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.” InspirationalInspirationUniverseNumbersBrainKnownGreaterConnectedBillionsCellsCombinationMoleculesHuman BrainNeuronsAnatomy And Physiology Author:Brian Tracy
“The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.” YearsFirstsMatterUniverseDarkSpaceViewsFieldsAmountPhotographBillionsBeachFixedSandMassiveGrainGalaxyHandfulTelescopesGrains Of SandDark Matter Author:Alex Jones
“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.” IfsLifeYearsMatterWholeWould BeSpiritualityUniverseProcessTakenEvolutionEnlightenmentConsciousGainsCapacityAwakeningBillionsInstant Author:Andrew Cohen
“The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.” MeanMadeInspirationEarthTogetherMotivationUniverseSunAimSticksPhysicsBillionsGalaxyParticlesParticle Physics Author:Brian Cox
“Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.” YearsLongHas BeensRealityEarthUniverseNamesSpaceCallingTenComplexesIncrediblesPhysicsBillionsQuantumNastyBizarreQuantum PhysicsConfiguration Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.” IfsThinkingYearsBelieveLongIdeasDoneUniverseActivityYears AgoTrainSevenBillionsFantasticBelieve In GodSatisfyingThrillingIf You BelieveSeven Days Author:Bill Bryson