“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.” FirstsHas BeensImportantEndsSpiritPurposeUniverseBeliefEffortExistenceEnemyPlansPeriodsAtheistCreatorSuitsAll TimeThinkerAlmightyFragmentsMissilesTroublesomeExistence Of GodScholastics Author:Andrew Dickson White
“There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.” UniversePeriodsEvidencePhysicsGravityFluidThermodynamics Author:Ben Stein
“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
“Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.” IfsThinkingMenSchoolUniverseEducationClassPeriodsStartingPrimariesCosmosHorizonRealisticConceitedCompulsoryPrimary School Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive.” FeelsLittlesHas BeensImportantAbleSpiritualityUniverseForceCasesNeededPeriods Author:Assata Shakur