How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!
Jean Paul Friedrich RichterTags: life atheism universe alone
We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.
Bertolt BrechtTags: science universe responsibility
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Isaac AsimovTags: wisdom science knowledge learning choice universe ignorance wise achilles
You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."
What monsters may they be?"
Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...
There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?
Tags: science universe horror monsters astronomy size cosmic
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
David MitchellIt was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.
Kazuo IshiguroTags: humor sex universe kathy parallel
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. ClarkeTags: humor science life universe extraterrestrials intelligent-life
In reality the universe has no geometry.
Kedar JoshiTags: reality universe idealism geometry nstp-theory
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
Kedar JoshiTags: paradox world universe contradiction
The universe is a philosophical abyss.
Kedar JoshiTags: philosophy universe
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