Topic: “Cosmos”

🔎 Lexicon containing “Cosmos”

Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.

Cosmos

An ordered, harmonious universe viewed as a structured whole.

💬 Quote Library — containing “Cosmos”

Love Is the Most Universal

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces.

from Human Energy by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

📖 Excerpts Library

Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb...

Source: We Choose to Go to the Moon

The Unformed Matter That Will Become the Earth

God appears as the architect of the world, shaping the universe with the aid of a compass. Within the perfect circle already created are the spherical sun and moon and the unformed matter that will become the earth once God...

Source: Gardner’s Art Through The Ages by Kleiner, Mamiya, Tansey

Creatures in the Other Regions of the Heavens Immeasurably Superior to Man

[Palingenius] argued that there must be creatures in the other regions of the heavens immeasurably superior to man, since it is inconceivable that “the infinite power of God”’ can have exhausted itself with the production of so insignificant and wretched a...

Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

But the World Itself Is Only a Speck of Dust

‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny — helpless!

Source: 1984 by George Orwell

A Lonely Speck in the Great Enveloping Cosmic Dark

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in...

Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Meditation Magazine’s Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson!

We Are One and the Same

So, you ask where did we come from? We came from the stars. And for me the most poetic accurate way to say this is not only are we alive in the universe, the universe is alive within us. We...

Source: Meditation Magazine’s Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson!

The Earth Was a Mere Point in a Vast Encompassing Cosmos

It seemed to me that another picture of the Earth, this one taken from a hundred thousand times farther away, might help in the continuing process of revealing to ourselves our true circumstance and condition. It had been well understood...

Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Our Obsession With Nationalism Is Nowhere in Evidence

And yet there is no sign of humans in this picture, not our reworking of the Earth's surface, not our machines, not ourselves: We are too small and our statecraft is too feeble to be seen by a spacecraft between...

Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

The Heavens Were the Realm of Perfection

These loopy planetary orbits were hugely problematic for the ancient Greeks, because all the orbits were supposed to be circular according to Plato and his pupil Aristotle. They declared that the circle, with its simplicity, beauty and lack of beginning...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

The Centre of the World Was Not a Position of Honor

But the actual tendency of the geocentric system was, for the medieval mind, precisely the opposite. For the centre of the world was not a position of honor; it was rather the place farthest removed from the Empyrean, the bottom...

Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

The Earth May Now Be a Mere Planet Moving Around the Sun

The earth may now be a mere planet moving around the sun, but man is no longer confined to it. His spiritual energy, his reason, his brain power, his psyche, his consciousness have become the center and the purpose of...

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel

Participants in a Great Cosmic Chain of Being

From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being...

Source: The Cosmic Perspective

The Universe Could Be Understood and Is Worthy of Analytical Study

The word ‘cosmology’ is derived from the ancient Greek word kosmeo, which means ‘to order’ or ‘to organise’, reflecting the belief that the universe could be understood and is worthy of analytical study. The cosmos had patterns, and it was...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

Concept of the Earth Revolving—Axially and Orbitally—Around the Sun

The term [revolution] derives from the Latin substantive revolutio, which was unknown in classical Latin but was used in the early Middle Ages by St. Augustine and other Christian writers. Translated into Italian as rivoluzione in the early Renaissance and...

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington