Catalyst Quotes

“Cosmic Understanding, Questions, Jigsaw Puzzle and a Smile”

 

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.  Within decades we must close our eyes again.  Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?  This is how I answer when I am asked — as I am surprisingly often — why I bother to get up in the mornings.”    (Richard Dawkins)   

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“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean.  I might think about it a little bit, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go on to something else.  But I don’t have to know an answer….  I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly.  It doesn’t frighten me.”    (Richard Phillips Feynman)

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“My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.”    (Robert Brault)

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“There are no extra pieces in the universe.  Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”    (Deepak Chopra)  

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“My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.”    (Mike Dolan)

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