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We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Brian Greene
Cosmos, Eras, Spirit
"Is our universe the only universe?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

Bertrand Russell
Passion, Home, Cosmos
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.

Audra McDonald
Thinking, Desire, Cosmos
Source: www.achievement.org

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Alan Watts
Ocean, Cosmos, Whole
Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.

Adrian Desmond
Thinking, Cosmos, World

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