“ Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control. ”
- Starhawk- Copy
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“ To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ It is true that if we ever did stop to think about the cosmos we might find it uncomfortable. The sun may grow cold or blow up; the earth may lose its atmosphere and become uninhabitable. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ”
- G.K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Science proceeds along a zig-zag path toward what we hope will be ultimate truth, a path that began with humanity's earliest attempts to fathom the cosmos and whose end we cannot predict. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories. ”
- Nicolai A. Berdyaev- Copy
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“ A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ The Pythagorean … having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers … and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars… ”
- Gerard de Nerval- Copy
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“ Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist… ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire — in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are. ”
- Carl Edward Sagan- Copy
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