“When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.” DifferentUniverseChristianityPhilosopherDimensionsSpheresRenaissanceDifferent Dimensions Author:Frederick Lenz
“The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.” DifferentFormUniverseWaterSpaceAirCloudsSizeCurrentsCirclesVarietyColourSpheresVolumeFloatingSimplestVarySprayDisparityDensityDiskFloating In Space Author:Alexander Calder
“God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God.” MenUniverseSpaceExistenceMillionsCreationShadowInfiniteRangeSpheresGrossAccommodateInfinite Space Book:The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose
“The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.” WantHandsEyeMovingNightOrderUniverseWishSawsSkyModernStrangeAngelHarmonyLeapSpheresCoincidenceTheologianPhysicistMedievalNight SkyTemptingThrough The EyesHands Of GodLeap Of Faith Author:Tony Rothman
“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
“Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?” EndsReasonMightScienceSpiritUniverseMathematicsSpheresDistinguishedDriftingCountrymenTombstoneConesEngravedCylinders Book:1854-1973 Source: 1854-1973
“Not only the phenomena of the others followed from this, but also it so bound together both the order and magnitude of all the planets and the spheres and the heaven itself, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in all the universe.” TogetherOrderUniverseHeavenOne ThingPlanetsBoundsConfusionSpheresAlteredMagnitude Author:Nicolaus Copernicus