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The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
A century after Virginia Woolf was staggered in her garden into her timelessly stunning insight that “behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself” — Hodges considers the elemental truth pulsating beneath our... See more
Maria Popova • We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
Then I said it.
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”
I did not know what I meant by saying you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols. I just said it.
“Begin with the primal light discovered in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson. This light, this cosmic microwave background radiation, arrives here from all directions.... See more
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”
I did not know what I meant by saying you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols. I just said it.
“Begin with the primal light discovered in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson. This light, this cosmic microwave background radiation, arrives here from all directions.... See more
"We are universe"
Sagan delivered at Cornell University in 1994—a speech that swelled into a best-selling book the following year, reverencing Earth as a “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam,” on which “everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”