Cosmic Quotes

• Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, Dance

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.326, Princeton University Press

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• We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Journey, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 20, 2017

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• On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Meaningful, World, Life Is

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• There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Attitude, Views, Earth

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• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Perspective

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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• There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place - and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible.

  Ray Kinsella

  There Comes A Time, Shows, Seconds

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• Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 193, 1980.

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• We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.

  Eden Ahbez

  Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.

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• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Astrology, Heaven

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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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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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Cosmos, Ankles

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

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

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

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• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  Ted Lange

  Artist, Thinking, Storytelling

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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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• The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Discovery, Literature, Logic

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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• My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Past, Humanity, World

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• The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

  Walther Bothe

  Radiation, Complicated, Process

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• God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wisdom, Father, Home

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

  Thomas Merton

  Fire, Victory, Wheels

  Thomas Merton (1997). “Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage”, HarperOne

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• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Riddle, Stills

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• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Atmosphere, Rays, Answers

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• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Investigation, Interest

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• Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

  John Polkinghorne

  Tyrants, Ideas

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