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The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, ...

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay ...

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A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspect...

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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral fo...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would a...

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I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

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In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poe...

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We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all...

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Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that...

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This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with t...

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Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.

Love. And again, see I don't mean, I think love is that condition in the human spirit so profund, th...

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In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which ...

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A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light stre...

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The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sent...

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[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]Sometime...

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The universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about,...

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The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for ...

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In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on th...

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Inflation is continuous and eternal, with big bangs happening all the time, with universes sprouting...

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Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to rea...

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Michio KakuThe Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don...

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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...

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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has...

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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his g...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you c...

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The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dre...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based pa...

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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth...

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While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, ...

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Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe un...

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The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I...

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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. I...

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There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are ...

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Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We ...

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While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic trut...

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Neil deGrasse TysonDeath by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only wi...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for th...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more of...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe bu...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got ca...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could beg...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter,...

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Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

If the universe is anything, it should be fun.

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Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of soun...

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Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

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With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe...

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A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenl...

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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal g...

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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. Y...

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Every day you play with the light of the universe.

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Pablo NerudaTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group t...

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Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.

The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, ...

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People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneline...

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I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed...

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We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think ...

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My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is...

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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothin...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops an...

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The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains un...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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Number rules the universe.

No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and ...

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So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And...

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no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. ...

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitt...

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Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

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Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The...

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go t...

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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...

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Oh, death in space was most humorous.

There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...

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The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every ef...

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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology w...

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In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some pe...

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Richard DawkinsRiver Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite pos...

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Whi...

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