#universe

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#certain #happen #idea #reincarnation #somewhere

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#general #more #objects #processes #range

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#energy #everybody #happen #mind #part

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comprehend #encompasses #i #like #me

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#consequences #direct #direct result #i #i am

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#chance #community #excitement #fact #fun

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#any #feel #humbled #look #many

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#even #find #intelligible #linguistics #marvelous