#universe

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#aspect #centuries #come #during #evolved

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ask #chance #fate #favourite #fundamental

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. ↗

— James Jeans

#architect #begins #creation #evidence #great

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#broad #business #business owner #business owners #businesses

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#religion #universe #religion

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #god #human #i #like

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#feel #make #safe #security #static

The universe is one of God's thoughts. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#thoughts #universe

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play