Cosmogony Quotes

#1. The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will enable future scientists to visualize the universe as a unified whole, and will open the door to the New Age of Transmutation.

Walter Russell

#2. She raised a little mountain for the ants to climb over. She reduced them to a frenzy of indecision by this interference in their cosmogony. Some ran this way, others that.

Virginia Woolf

#3. And what opinion did Bokonon hold of his own cosmogony?
"Foma! Lies!" he wrote. "A pack of foma!

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Charles Lyell

#5. All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Richard Francis Burton

#6. the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

Francis Wheen

#7. For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.

David Hare

#8. [T]here cannot be a more certain symptom of the approaching ruin of a State than when a firm adherence to party is fixed upon as the only test of merit, and all the qualifications requisite to a right discharge of every employment, are reduced to that single standard.

Edward Wortley Montagu

#9. Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

Peter Schjeldahl

#10. If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#11. Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted.

George Orwell

#12. We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Amilcar Cabral

#13. Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

Walt Whitman

#14. What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#15. Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Edward Kennedy

#16. I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable.

Rachel Klein

#17. It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

Robert Mundell

#18. How?" asked Mariska. She looked at Darla who was already poised to speak. "I know you can break in Darla, but what if he's home?

Amy Vansant

#19. If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

Mary J. Blige