Best universe & term Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.”

Trying Song Universe Term Study Painting Intellectual Bigger Intuition Faithful Description Ineffable

Author:Guy Consolmagno

“The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.”

Ifs Knows Doe Matter Use Science Universe Given Term Talking Knowledge Scientist Phrases Conception Riddle

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.”

Men Political Universe Found Term Interest Pride Conscious Vote Individuality Artistic One Man Insignificant Public Interest Diseased

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.”

Thinking Stills Enough Motivational Universe Term Havens Incredibles Tiny Mature Conquest

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humans Looks Long Earth Universe Term Space Race Planets Human Race Long Term Horizon Inward Planet Earth

Author:Stephen Hawking

“In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.”

Knows Matter Facts Law Universe Energy Term Dark Four Percent And Love Physics Astonishing Stunning Laws Of Physics Dark Matter Dark Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence”

Reason Universe Term Consciousness Produce Essence Intimate No Reason Incapable

Author:Ezra Pound

“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”

Universe Term Alive Wall Cost Chrysalis

Book:A Pluralistic Universe

Source: A Pluralistic Universe

“Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.”

Ifs Men Way Said Seems Would Be Wanted Universe Term Interesting Events Evolution Unexpected Organisms Theological

Book:Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

Source: Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

“Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.”

Ideas Action Universe Term Objectives Aspiration Discourse

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.”

“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.”

Heart May Mean Suffering Universe Term Born Teach Security Planets Practicals Doctrine Fifth Prey Abolish Idealist Sentient Beings

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.”

Moments Stories Problem Seems Happens Universe Next Term Materials Myth Nuclear Being True Fantastic Visuals Sunset Epic No Problem Splendor Fusion Rotation Nuclear Fusion

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.”

World Doe Made Use Order Universe Heaven Wish Term Teach Teaching Sacred Intention Scripture Aliens Makeup Cosmology Sacred Scripture

Author:Pope John Paul II

“You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.”

Ifs Thinking Want Universe Term Illusion Labels Mysticism You Choose

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.”

People Needs Mean Use Law Used Universe Term Decided Physics Laws Of Physics Shorthand

Author:Stephen Hawking

“A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.”

Feels Humans Soul Universe Term Human Beings Environment Wonderful Mystery Possibility Bigger Infinite Response Saint Deeper Contact Generous Stature Infinite Possibilities

Book:Lent With Evelyn Underhill

Source: Lent With Evelyn Underhill

“Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.”

Universe Term Imagine Imaginary

Book:Highway of Eternity

Source: Highway of Eternity

“The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.”

Years Believe Age Earth Young Universe Term Issues Scientist Billions

Author:Norman Geisler

“The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.”

Littles Earth Universe Term Destiny

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.”

Should Persons Real Universe Term Cases Computer Heat

Author:Scott Fahlman

“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.”

“Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.”

Used Universe Term Dependent Bubbles Reverse Extensions Muhammad Narcissist

Author:Ali Sina

“Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.”

Certain Universe Term Unique Standards Relation Productions Ideology Blah Unique Experiences

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.”

Universe Term Church Views Struggle Happened Century Revolution Development Conflict Contribution

Author:George Coyne

“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.”

Inspirational Should Self Able Joy Universe Heaven Term Religious Hell Taste Demand Finals Consent Blackmail Loveless Veto Great Divorce

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.”

“The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.”

Long Stills Order Universe Term Levels Clear Evolution Higher All Things Intention Complexes Rate Wave Long Term Streams Steady Elegant Novelty Scarcity Stagnation Restructuring

Book:The Silent Pulse

Source: The Silent Pulse

“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.”

Done Helping Order Universe Growth Term Natural Environment Birth Ordinary Roots Harmony Perceive Cycles Decay Natural Environment Birth And Death

Author:Fritjof Capra

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