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I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality. -- Brian Greene
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. -- John Polkinghorne
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology. -- Randy Newman
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence. -- Dennis Overbye
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. -- Robert Nozick
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science. -- Andrei Sakharov
Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life. -- Martin Rees
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. -- Christopher Hitchens
Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field. -- Stephen Hawking
Billions and billions. -- Carl Sagan
The barrier has begun to yield. -- John Herschel
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility. -- Arthur C. Clarke
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference. -- Giordano Bruno
I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. -- Richard P. Feynman
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. -- Christiaan Huygens
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. -- Henry Beston
A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there. -- Neale Donald Walsch
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There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time. -- Stephen Hawking
The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter. -- George Ellery Hale
Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature. -- Albert Einstein
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. -- Stephen Hawking
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation. -- Leonard Susskind
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. -- John Banville
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is. -- Margaret Geller
The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard. -- Paul Di Filippo
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities. -- Lisa Randall
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. -- Paul Davies
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. -- Paul Davies
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all. -- Julian Baggini
The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is. -- David Gross
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance. -- Tracy Hickman
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing. -- Sean M. Carroll
Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting. -- Joseph Silk
We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink. -- Patti Smith
I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word. -- Marshall McLuhan
I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology. -- Fred Van Lente
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch. -- Alan Guth
In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything. -- James Hillman
I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology. -- Michio Kaku
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. -- Frederick Lenz
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. -- Frederick Lenz
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! -- Daniel Dennett
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His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled. -- Li Zhi Fang
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma. -- Augusten Burroughs
Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much. -- Frederick Lenz
[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos. -- Hugh Ross
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us. -- Northrop Frye

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