universe

The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destru

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, __ see you__e an astrophysicist. What__ that?_ I answer, __strophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe__he Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing._ Then he asks, __hat do you teach at Princeton?_ and I say, __ teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony._ Five minutes later, I__ on the street. A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we__ like to ask the court, and I say, __es, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The __housand_ cancels with the __illi-_ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime._ Again I__ out on the street.

There__ as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn__ be here if stars hadn__ exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren__ created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings.

Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system to try to make order from randomness. The other humans, all of them but me, live their lives by hours and minutes and days and seconds, but those things are nothing. The universe would laugh at our attempts to organize it, if it could be bothered to notice them. Time is the thing that makes our bodies shrivel and decay. That is why people are scared of it.

The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.

If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken about, then we could not speak abouth such meaningless subjects as the 'beginning' or the 'end' of time. But, if we are semantically disturbed and objectify, then, of course, since objects have a beginning and an end, so also would 'time' have a 'beggining' and an 'end'. In such pathological fancies the universe must have a 'beginning in time' and so must have been made., and all of our old anthropomorphic and objectified mythologies follow, including the older theories of entropy in physics. But, if 'time' is only a human form of representation and not an object, the universe has no 'beginning in time' and no 'end in time'; in other words, the universe is 'time'-less. The moment we realize, feel permanently, and utilize these realizations and feelings that words are not things, then only do we acquire the semantic freedom to use different forms of representation. We can fit better their structure to the facts at hand, become better adjusted to these facts which are not words, and so evaluate properly m.o (multi-ordinal) realities, which evaluation is important for sanity.

The universe doesn__ give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Our image is here and will for ever stay,and there is comfort in knowing that the memory of our lives will always be there,traveling among the stars.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

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.