Thursday, September 13, 2012

Cosmic Quotes

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. 
Gertrude Stein 

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. 
Alan Watts 

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. 
Anais Nin 

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. 
Thomas Merton 

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. 
Sun Myung Moon 

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. 
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. 
Marc Maron 

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do. 
Danny Elfman 

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. 
Ted Lange 

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. 
Paul Ricoeur 

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. 
John Polkinghorne 

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. 
John Polkinghorne 

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. 
Phillip E. Johnson 

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known. 
Michael Shermer 

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. 
Martha Gellhorn 

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. 
Kenneth Scott Latourette 

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. 
David Simon 

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories. 
Frederick Reines 

Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom. 
Bradley Chicho


I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out. 
Bill Lee 

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. 
Julian Huxley 

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed. 
Walther Bothe 

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me. 
Lea DeLaria 

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. 
Victor Francis Hess 

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. 
Victor Francis Hess 

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. 
Victor Francis Hess 

In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent. 
Victor Francis Hess 

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. 
Guy de Maupassant 

We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. 
Eden Ahbez 

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance. 
Hortense Odlum 

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. 
Ben Lindsey 

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays. 
Bruno Rossi 

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method. 
Carl D. Anderson 

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. 
Ruth Bernhard

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