“Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.” PeopleWorldDoeIdeasArtistUniverseRolesThis WorldOppositesCaughtFollowingScaryWowCaught UpBeing An ArtistScary Things Author:Halsey
“One theory is that the universe came from nothing. i.e. perhaps bubble-universes collided, as in a bubble bath, and gave birth to the universe. Or perhaps the big bang was created by a bubble-universe which split into two universes. The universe does seem to be compatible with nothing.” DoeTwoBigsSeemsUniverseTheoryBirthBubblesSplitsBangsBathsCompatibleBubble Bath Author:Michio Kaku
“When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.” ThinkingDoeTurnsFallUniverseSunMysteryHavensMoonButterflyCaterpillarsRecluseMoon Rise Author:Bob Dylan
“The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.” DoeTodayScienceUniverseForceUnderstandingSpaceExistenceFieldsStrangeInvolvedDemandHappeningsIndependentInsightPhysicsSatisfiedObservationTime And SpaceObserversParticlesGeometry Author:John P. Wheeler III
“Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.” PeopleMenDoeSometimesReasonSeemsHumanityUniverseHouseSpaceRelationMakersMagnitudeVastnessSpecksInsignificance Author:John Piper
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.” DoeSpiritualSpiritUniverseCoursesEnergyCommonPathAliveShareBreaths Author:Matthew Fox
“The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindDoeUniverseDevicesTechnologicalSubjectiveShrinking Author:Don DeLillo
“It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.” TryingLooksDoeHardUniverseAliveConcernedHungryFrightenedMotivatedIdenticalStaying AliveAlbatross Author:Carl Safina
“As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.” DoeUniverseBeliefReasoningIndispensable Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.” WellsKindLongDoeMadeSeemsUniverseLong TimeSpeciesIncrediblesShockCentreMonkeysOrigin Of SpeciesSlimeDemeaning Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.” DoeEarthUniverseHeavenOceanTheeSurroundHeaven And EarthBucketsSubmerged Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer