#universe

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#call #could #everything #i #instant

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. ↗

— Helmut Walcha

#bach #experiencing #feel #him #life

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ↗

— George Wald

#atom #atoms #knowing #made #physicist

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open. ↗

— Gene Ween

#doors #life #open #others #some

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#directed #life #mechanism #offensive #repetitious

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#before #composed #million #soul #stand

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#far #goes #heard #i #middling

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#individual #single #single individual #theory #universe

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. ↗

— Juan Williams

#into #public #public radio #radio #translate