"To confine our attention to terresterial matters, would be to limit the human spirit."
-Stephen Hawking
"We are made of stardust"
-Edward Zganjar
"The universe formed out of divine fire and would be dissolved after running its course into the divine fire once again, to be succeeded over and over by similiar universes for all eternity"
-Stoic Doctrine
"The 'this' is also the 'that'. The 'that' is also 'this'. That the 'that' and the 'this' cease to be opposites is the very essence.."
-Chuang Tzu
"(according to superstrings theory) Matter is nothing but the harmonies created by vibrating strings...the universe itself, composed of countless vibrating strings would then be comparable to a symphony."
-Michio Kaku
"To see the world in a grain of sand,
and a heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour."
-William Blake
"Everything from Nothing"
"10 to 20 billion years ago something happened- the Big Bang, the event that began the universe. All the matter and energy now in the universe was concentrated at extreme high density...perhaps into a mathmatical point with no dimensions at all."
-Carl Sagan
"Space is big, you just wouldn't believe how vastly, hugely, mind boggelingly big it is. I mean you may think it a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts compared to space"
-Douglas Adams
"There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism, and other fields are only manifestiations of the curvature of space."
-John Wheeler
"The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
-Albert Einstein