“As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.” UniverseStageSweetSourcePrayingForgivingGuidesPlentyManagersGenerousGoddessHornsI PrayPlentifulStage Managers Author:Rebecca Wells
“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
“We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.” EyeUniverseRealizingStudyStageAdventurePromiseDemandNew Eyes Author:J. W. N. Sullivan
“Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.” DifferentDiesUniverseComedyStageHundredCents Author:Jean de La Fontaine
“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.” LittlesSometimesRealityEyeUniverseStageMinesMouthsCirclesVisibleComing OutProjectors Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.” AgeHumanityUniverseJusticeStageTheoryInjusticeImmortalityProvidenceThronesVerdictTravestyRectification Author:Randolph Sinks Foster
“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.” PeopleWayHumansStoriesRunningEarthUniverseInterestHuman BeingsSunClearMankindStagePlanetsArmsUncomfortableBranchesJust OnePushingHumankindGalaxyLiving OnMillsSpiralsCenter Of The UniverseGreat FamilyFocal PointCenter Stage Author:Seth Lloyd
“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.” BookStatesLastsUniverseConsciousnessPrinciplesVirtueStageIntellectualConceptsFunctionWaveChainsIntroducingObserversMeasurementInner LifeRefrainPsychoParallelism Author:Asher Peres
“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.” PlayStoriesRunningUniverseInterestingSeeingConditionsStageCreatingCastsTinyExperimentsLaboratoryTheatricalImposing Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“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
“If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.” IfsFeelsI CanSometimesMomentsBodySeemsHappensBeautifulUniverseStuffSoundStageLike YouAtmosphereMeant To BePerformersBeautiful ThingsClicks Author:Ben Lee
“That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.” KindBookHappensUniverseForceGoalStepsAliveWrittenStageHonestlyVulnerableImperfectMentalityJust Being Author:Dan Mangan
“At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.” Has BeensMadeBigsHappensUniverseUnderstandingKnowingStageBenefitsLeapCivilisationUnderstanding The Universe Author:Brian Cox