#universe

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#come #fact #hey #humans #kind

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cause #contrary #earthly #last #longer

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#around #big #big enough #brain #come

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#earth #going #humans #into #just

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#creator #does #fabric #maximum #minimum