The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible.
Dianna HardyTag: life choice free-will fate universe life-lessons choices impossible possible
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.
Svante ArrheniusTag: science reductionism obvious philosophy universe admiration physics end beginning atoms antiquity democritus stoics empedocles
I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
Annie DillardTag: wonder universe page number
I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.
Annie DillardTag: vision world wonder universe risk seeing sight
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
Annie DillardTag: world philosophy religion universe page-65
When we try to contain reality, to define it, to write down its laws, we fail. We should recognise the universe its right to be unpredictable! - Rossana Condoleo www.rossanacondoleo.com
Rossana CondoleoTag: universe control unpredictable-situations unpredictability-of-life
There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.
Michael BrooksTag: history universe cosmology physics astronomy laws-of-physics
Having a finite life in an infinite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in a finite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in an infinite universe, now, that means something!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: universe
It is important to distinguish 'pure chance' from 'chance' or 'accident.' Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe...Now there is perhaps a sense of 'could not have done otherwise' in which whether or not a person could or could not have done otherwise depends on whether or not the universe is deterministic.
J.J.C. SmartTag: determinism philosophy random universe chance
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
Norwood Russell HansonTag: science universe logic physics scale very-large very-small
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