#cosmos

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

#inspirational #purpose #r-j-anderson #ultraviolet #inspirational

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmos #life #mystery #universe #life

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmos #dna #sense-of-wonder #stars #wonder

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#existence #obligation #purpose #universe #purpose

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #identity #personality #stories

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #faith #life #peace

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmology #cosmos #existence #informed #knowledge

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#balance #beauty #cosmos #deepak-chopra #energy

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#does #exist #objective #politics #purely

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here. ↗

— Morris West

#been #birds #corner #cosmos #creation