#cosmos

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

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea... ↗

— Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway

#space-and-cosmos #wonder #beauty

We are not special. We are not innovative. We do not push the limits. We are small. Pathetic. Infinity lies before us. Right in front of our eyes. Look up! It's right there! Taunting you with its blue beauty. Space; an endless continuum to explore. And we choose to stay here. We are that scared nerdy kid in his apartment on Friday nights. We are not living. We are regressing. Inventing the wrong things...to steer us away from the real entertainment. Nature, space, the heavens. ↗

— B.S. Wood

#cosmos #exploration #explore #nasa #nature

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#bring #cosmos #country #deep #excited

I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#michio-kaku #religion #science #attitude

Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies, all of which are in one universe among perhaps an infinite number of universes all nestled within a grand cosmic multiverse, is provincially insular and anthropocentrically blinkered. Which is more likely? That the universe was designed just for us, or that we see the universe as having been designed just for us? ↗

— Michael Shermer

#creation #darwinism #galaxies #intelligent-design #multiverse

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists, and 100 million fundamentalist Christians or Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest or Why is it possible to learn more in ten minutes about the Crab Nebula in Taurus, which is 6,000 light-years away, than you presently know about yourself, even though you've been stuck with yourself all your life ↗

— Walker Percy

#existence #self #self-help #life