Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
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.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.
Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
The universe is an intelligence test.