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“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”

Littles Ends Done Seems Universe Planets Concerned Importance Mortals Minors Wickedness Solar System

Book:My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor

Source: My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor

“It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main reason is, of course, the philosophical or spiritual element in this story. We know as little today about the secrets of Creation and evolution as we knew before, and it is not likely that we'll ever know much more. We'll have to be satisfied, as Kubrick was, respectfully admiring the potential for evolution within the mystery of the universe's creation.”

“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”

Kind Young Universe Grief Grace Cutting Century Tears Please Species Novelists Silver Minors Smooth Widows Suggesting Sentimentality Placid Acacia

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Science Universe Stars Special Humility Planets Scientist Intelligent Average Minors Monkeys Cheer Up Astronomy And Universe Space Aliens Computer Viruses Expanding Universe Understanding The Universe

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.”

Self Universe Force Awareness Conscious Self Awareness Details Meant To Be Minors Mindless

Book:Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World

Source: Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World

“You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.”

Matter Form Universe Sun Planets Edges Surface Chosen Minors Multiple Galaxy

Author:Richard Bach