216 Quotes About Cosmology

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.

Life is self expressing itself as self-differentiated for the purpose of companionship, friendship, love.

All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.

Whole universe is dark but still there are some self-luminous things like sun and other stars. Our soul is also a self-luminous body so never let it fade away in this dark universe.“Darkness of the universe is an opportunity for the stars to shine

Whole universe is dark but still there are some self-luminous things like sun and other stars. Our soul is also a self-luminous body so never let it fade away in this dark universe.Darkness of the universe is an opportunity for the stars to shine

Someday they would discover that the stars were not sacred, but made from the same material as their bodies. They would learn it was the stars that created their worlds, that worlds created their minds, that minds created tools, and tools could create stars. Growing, sprawling, thriving until they too became masters of their own understanding, chasing enlightenment with the fervor of having nothing to lose, launching from their homelands like fireworks with glorious yellow tails.

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes