When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.
I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had a line which was, 'Whenever I hear the word 'marketing,' it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.'
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.
Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
