Top 35 Cosmological Quotes
#2. For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.
Bertrand Russell
#3. They say that each word in the Quran has seven thousand layers of meaning, each of which, though some might seem contrary or simply unfathomable to us, exist equally at all times without cosmological contradiction.
G. Willow Wilson
#4. my favorite is the cosmological argument. But cosmological and teleological arguments don't touch people where they live. The
William Lane Craig
#5. I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
Umberto Eco
#6. We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.
Lee Smolin
#7. Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
Gaston Bachelard
#8. We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
Paul Ricoeur
#9. If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#10. Fourth is Lambda, the cosmological constant, which determines the acceleration of the universe.
Michio Kaku
#11. The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe.
Victor J. Stenger
#12. His new idea was published that month in what became yet another seminal Einstein paper, "Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity."9 On the surface, it did indeed seem to be based on a crazy notion: space has no borders because gravity bends it back on itself. Einstein
Walter Isaacson
#13. Back in 1917, when Einstein had analyzed the "cosmological considerations" arising from his general theory of relativity, most astronomers thought that the universe consisted only of our Milky Way, floating with its 100 billion or so stars in a void of empty space.
Walter Isaacson
#14. Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.
Rudolf Bultmann
#15. Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual
Stephen King
#16. [Author's Note: Barbara Hand Clow gives a much more detailed description and story about the photon band and the cosmological changes in dimensional relationships we are undergoing in her latest book, The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light.]
Amorah Quan Yin
#17. The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.
Lewis Thomas
#18. Since Cervantes's magnificent Knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#19. This puzzling discrepancy prompted the development of the controversial cosmological theory known as the Strong Misanthropic Principle, which asserts that the universe exists in order to screw with us.
Robert Kroese
#20. I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
Lawrence Durrell
#21. It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects ... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.
Anatol Rapoport
#22. The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]
Carl Sagan
#23. Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
George Gamow
#24. In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.
Italo Calvino
#25. All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
Joseph Campbell
#26. We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.
Philip Wollen
#27. As a rationalist, pragmatist, and a scientist I rarely involve myself in the cosmological arguments of the creation of the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I like Aristotle, but I don't agree with his cosmological argument about god.
Debasish Mridha
#29. There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#30. Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
Joyce Carol Oates
#31. In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.
Victor J. Stenger
#32. Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
Steven Weinberg
#33. There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I think about man, religion and art, I do not see any of those evolutions.
Alija Izetbegovic
#34. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
