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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrify...

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This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To...

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The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we sh...

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If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything...

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Barbara De AngelisSecrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher...

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds o...

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We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the da...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every livin...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was noth...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this univers...

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to...

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom through thought I comprehend ...

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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You ar...

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The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message ...

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Brian Cox (physicist)There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connect...

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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in whic...

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String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...

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...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notic...

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Brian GreeneThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings

Humanity is destined to explore, settle, and expand outward into the universe.

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Buzz Aldrinsecond man to walk on the Moon

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...

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If God annihilates or deflects or creates a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so m...

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Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I believe it is true that h...

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All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particul...

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creat...

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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfyi...

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The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...

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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...

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The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the u...

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget...

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There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I w...

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And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep."Alfie shrugged, indicating...

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Cassandra ClareThe Rise of the Hotel Dumort

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by l...

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I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone...

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What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So man...

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be th...

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I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who wo...

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Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the ...

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The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict ru...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...

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Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with...

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Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks...

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In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possi...

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...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?"Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I no...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

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Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-...

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We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky ...

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David EaglemanIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

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David EaglemanIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharin...

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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to eve...

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...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not...

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In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

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Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

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It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands noth...

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But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it appl...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

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If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was...

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Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, a...

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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

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it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a sp...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your brea...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained...

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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...

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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...

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The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to d...

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The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisab...

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He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, on...

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She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to b...

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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his wor...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come th...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons o...

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The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

Away from the safety of your home, the universe was not made for your convenience.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...

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I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t...

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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....

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