James Jeans Quotation

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral,

and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand

than space is with stars.

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Arthur Eddington Quotation

Physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

The stuff of the world is mindstuff.

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Heinz R. Pagels Quotation

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropics.html

[On the origin of the universe]
There was emptiness more profound
than the void between the stars,
for which there was no here and there
and before and after,
and yet out of that void

the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Ilya Prigogine and Isabella Stengers Quotation

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropics.html

... Newton's law, a single mathematical formula

corresponding to an eternal truth

unfolding toward a tautological future.