Cosmos Quotes - Page 14

• Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Mind Blowing, Language

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2011

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• Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

  Huston Smith

  Distance, Animal, Rocks

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• Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

  Edmund Bourne

  Years, Civilization, Technological Development

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• Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I’m hoping to define a new position - one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.

  David Eagleman

  Religious, Ignorance, Men

  "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman". Interview with Blake Wilson, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. July 10, 2009.

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• We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Moving, Reflection, Divine Power

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• The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

  Alexander Calder

  Inspiration, Firsts

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• Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos…provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed—but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.

  Marva Dawn

  Kings, Successful, Opportunity

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• You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

  Roswell Rudd

  Blow, Sound, Ends

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• While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love, and meaning, what the religious traditions of mankind have said forms a coherent body of thought... There is recompense for suffering. A principle beyond selfishness is at work in the cosmos. All will be well. I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

  David Berlinski

  Religious, Community, Suffering

  "The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions". Book by David Berlinski, April 1, 2008.

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• Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Secret, Energy, Myth

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

  Carl Sagan

  Machinery, Exquisite, Elegant

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean". TV Series, 1990.

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• When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rain, Flower, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Living Buddha, Living Christ”, p.11, Random House

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• Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self's own will to power.

  Richard Tarnas

  Self, Mind, Overcoming

  Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.68, Penguin

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• Astrology is the Via Regia to the enchanted cosmos.

  Richard Tarnas

  Astrology, Enchanted

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• It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.

  Gore Vidal

  Stars, War, Long

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 861), 1993.

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• The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Way

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• Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

  Norman Cousins

  Education, Hurt, Unique

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• For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Lying, Contemplation

  "Man's Being, His Destiny, and World-Evolution".

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• The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Christian, Spiritual, Father

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• In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Positive, Wise, Spiritual

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• The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

  Kallistos Ware

  Fire, Burning, Divine Power

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• According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

  Jeremy Narby

  Axes, Ideas, Tree

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.50, Penguin

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• Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  People, Democracy, Different

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• ...every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great plops into your lap, that's how it was with "Hotel California".. a leased beach house in Malibu ... all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day probably in 1975 ... soaking wet ... thinking the world is a wonderful place to be... with an acoustic 12 string ... those chords just oozed out.

  Don Felder

  Music, Beach, Thinking

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• The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dust, Ideas, Add

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