“On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.” MayMovingFormScienceUniverseNumbersPropertyScalesObservationAssumptionRegionsUsualObserversContainingLarge ScaleHomogeneousHomogeneityNebula Author:Hermann Bondi
“Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsUniverseNextHoursActingHalfSticksScalesTraditionalInsaneExistentialEpicHalf HoursBlown AwayMeltdowns Author:Enrico Fermi
“If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.” IfsWayCharacterUniverseInterestingCommonStageScalesOne WayCommon Experience Author:Shane Black
“Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.” UniverseStarsCenturyTheoryAchievementEndureInsightScales20th CenturyTransientLarge ScaleAstrophysicsGreatest Achievement Author:Fred Hoyle
“Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.” UniverseScalesLinearLarge ScaleSpatial Author:Peter J. Carroll
“The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.” WholeBodyDeathUniverseGriefAliveBrotherFilledErrorsScalesImmortalityMy BrotherImmortalConcealedOutrageYounger Brother Author:Marguerite Duras
“It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.” KindMadeMightUniverseFoundExistenceStageCivilizationImportanceTerrorHonestlyScalesContactEmptinessPossessedExistentialSheerSoloNeuroticCivilisationTruism Author:Iain Banks
“Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.” FeelsHumansUniverseEmotionalScalesTemptationTranscendentLarge Scale Author:Paul Kurtz
“Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.” MindHumansDoeOrderUniverseCommunityDecisionDivineHonorDemandStandardsEnvironmentalScalesRhythmAgentsHuman LifeCosmosNormJudaismStewardshipFiltersKeepersFramedStewardsMicrocosmDivine OrderSmall Life Author:Joan D. Chittister
“in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.” WholeUniversePhotographyReflectionScalesCellsSmallest Author:Ernst Haas