Cosmology Quotes - Page 4

• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

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• The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Self, Unhappy

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• Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

  Socrates

  Airplane, Men, Flying

  Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).

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• The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

  Alan Guth

  Lunch, Development, May

  "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.

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• Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.

  Henri Poincare

  Men, Mind, Body

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.473, Modern Library

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• God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

  Giordano Bruno

  Greatness, Excellence, World

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Discovery

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• Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Pain, Joy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Winning

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Life And Death, Southern

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

  Paul Davies

  Structure, Strings, Force

  " Einstein, the first spin doctor" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

  Paul Davies

  Secret, Wonderland, Fundamentals

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• Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

  Julian Baggini

  Believe, Games, Use

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Worry

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• A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.

  Gayl Jones

  Stars, Civilization, Names

  Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Art, Views, Giving

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• Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Psychology, Religion

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Views, Mind

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• The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Effort, Unity, Vision

  Alfred North Whitehead (1969). “Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology; Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28”, New York : Macmillan

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• I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

  Paul Davies

  Teenager, Night, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Greek, Utterance

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 35, 1988.

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• In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.

  Fred Hoyle

  Appreciate, Mind, Battle

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• We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stars, Father, Unique

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.235, Macmillan

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