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Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!

They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past...

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Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose ...

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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fund...

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Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

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Jacques MonodChance and Necessity

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

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Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily p...

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it sto...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stop...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe...

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Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can...

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From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by caus...

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If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear b...

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We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all wan...

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Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And the...

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If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organ...

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What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe,...

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When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the univers...

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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

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Johannes KeplerEpitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own righ...

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You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. Peo...

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But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamne...

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Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact th...

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what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- ...

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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the con...

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All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motio...

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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the u...

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When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Uni­verse...

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

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John MuirA Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by somethi...

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The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it...

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After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest bl...

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Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama,...

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The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is ina...

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Jorge Luis BorgesThe Library of Babel

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number o...

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convince...

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Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

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Joseph FourierThe Analytical Theory of Heat

I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing...

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So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

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José Ortega y GassetLa Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, det...

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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to c...

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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that k...

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Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts,...

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Kate DiCamilloFlora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.

All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundl...

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If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, i...

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The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe ...

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A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Thr...

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We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, wheth...

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Lawrence M. KraussA Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in ...

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Lawrence M. KraussA Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the...

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Lawrence M. KraussA Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other ...

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Lawrence M. KraussA Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal a...

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I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whethe...

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There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it...

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Leonard SusskindThe Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be...

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A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of...

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...

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Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he reali...

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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the r...

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Madeleine L'EngleMiracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connec...

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The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...

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Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it ag...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

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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