We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceTags: science intelligence certainty past present determinism free-will nature time mind universe naturalism space physics comprehension eyes perfection astronomy omniscience data human-mind motion analysis formula lack-of-free-will
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonThe universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine.
James Hopwood JeansTags: universe
The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.
Annie DillardIf we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,
then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.
Tags: universe think presumption abyss ancestor flat-earth wall boundary surrounding
Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life success universe challenges
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
Carl SaganTags: science beauty philosophy universe atoms cosmos
There are no walls at the edge of this universe...
absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.
Tags: existence universe secret edge wall absence-of-gravity limit-of-space
Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'
Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)
Tags: humor science atheism universe naturalism astronomy napoleon napoleon-bonaparte napoleon-the-great
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
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