#cosmos

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#existence #obligation #purpose #universe #purpose

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #identity #personality #stories

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #faith #life #peace

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmology #cosmos #existence #informed #knowledge

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#balance #beauty #cosmos #deepak-chopra #energy

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#does #exist #objective #politics #purely

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here. ↗

— Morris West

#been #birds #corner #cosmos #creation

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#cosmos #god #matter #me #mystery

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#belonged #cosmos #felt #i #like

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common