Cosmology Quotes - Page 7

• I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

  Fred Van Lente

  Excuse, Interest, Shows

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.

  Sara Maitland

  People, Heaven, Greek

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• For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Philosophy, Science

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• An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moving, Nebula, Astronomy

  "Wissenschaft und Symbol". Book by Hermann Friedmann, p. 472, 1949.

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• Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Order, Religion

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• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

  Johannes Kepler

  Home, Fate, Men

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• Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.

  Geoffrey Burbidge

  Civilization, Bangs, Objective Truth

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• For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the world who can say that. This has no kudos in either the science-writing world or the academic world, but it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done. It's much harder to write about cosmology for a magazine like Vogue than for the New York Times, which I've also written for, because you have to imagine that on the page opposite there'll be an advertisement for eyeliner, or an article about the latest trends in skirt length.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Writing, Challenges, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Our World, Self

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• The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Essence, Practice

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• The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfect

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• Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Enlightenment, Firsts

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• A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Moving, Wish

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• Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Years, Towns

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• Real Buddhism is about meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Real, Buddhism

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• Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Buddhism

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• Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Forever

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• Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Difficult Situations, Overcoming

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• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

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• Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Becoming One

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• The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Messages, Affirmation

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• If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Research, Information

  Source: www.pbs.org

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