Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life. John Polkinghorne

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Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. Paul Davies

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Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Stephen Hawking

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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. Fred Hoyle

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From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. Ahmed Zewai

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I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself. Kali Uchis

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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. Agnes de Mille

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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. Maxine Hong Kingston

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A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. Martin Rees

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We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe. Rudolf Steiner

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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. Ray Bradbury

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I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back. Becky G

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The universe is wider than our views of it. Henry David Thoreau

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I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the intention is then out in the universe. Bozoma Saint John

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Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I've always lived by that. Ruby Rose

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We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. Stephen Hawking

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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. Helena Blavatsky

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Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe. Henning Mankell

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