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• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Ethical Standards, Agony

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.113, Penguin

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• The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dark, Sacrifice, Engineering

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• Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Doe, Awareness

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love Is, Mysterious, Force

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

  Freya Stark

  Luck, Age, Looks

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• All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

  George Harrison

  Real, Lying, Light

  "Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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• Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, Style

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• For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Might, Odd

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, Men, Cells

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• Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Order, Law

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.44, Vintage

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• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Science, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Trying, Fiction, Should

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• You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

  Nina Hagen

  Knowing, Bad Experiences, Really Positive

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• We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Writing, Tiny, Sand

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

  J. Boone

  Spiritual, Orchestra, Essentials

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• I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, Names, President

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• When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Consciousness, Creation, Womb

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• A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

  Michael Jackson

  Stars, Turns, Dies

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Religion

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

  John Polkinghorne

  Character, Age, Doctrine

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• The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Nature, Clouds, Together

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• In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Running, Dog

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

  Michio Kaku

  Symphony, Strings, Membranes

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