“Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.” WantMindSelfScienceUniverseWonderStudyBuddhismEnlightenmentReflectionAweMetaphysicsSelf ReflectionCelestialRadianceAwe And Wonder Author:Frederick Lenz
“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.” IfsSometimesUniverseStarsParentUnderstoodConstantFixedSpheresSiblingCelestialDazzlingCometsScorching Author:Alison Gopnik
“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.” WorldMindHumansHas BeensUniverseLanguageSpaceConsciousnessVisionPeriodsDepthRegionsOur WorldHuman MindPrimitivePhasesTechnologicalTribesInteriorsCelestialParametersConfinement Author:Thomas Berry
“The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.” WorldFirstsBodyEarthTogetherUniverseStarsCommonParticularRootsAstronomyGlobesCelestialCosmologyCelestial Bodies Author:Francis Bacon
“One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)” ImportantBodyLightEarthScienceUniverseStarsObjectsElementsOriginalsChemicalsInvestigationCelestialAffirmativeCelestial Bodies Book:The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins Source: The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins
“Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.” IfsUniverseDivineEvidenceArgumentImperfectionAtomsVentureCelestialDivine Power Author:Lucretius