A boy can take you into the open at night and show you the stars; he might tell you no end of things about them, conceivably all that an astronomer could teach. But until and unless he feels the vast indifference of the universe to his own fate, and has placed himself in the perspective of cold and illimitable space, he has not looked maturely at the heavens. Until he has felt this, and unless he … | Walter Lippman Continue reading A Boy Can Take You Into the Open at Night and Show You the Stars Walter Lippman
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few … | Albert Einstein Continue reading A Human Being Is a Part of the Whole, Called by Us “universe” Albert Einstein (misquote)
In this book, Future Minds, Richard Yonck challenges our assumptions about intelligence — what it is, how it came to exist, and its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos. Taking a Big History perspective — over the 14 billion years from the Big Bang to the present and Continue reading Future Minds: the Rise of Intelligence From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe by Richard Yonck
We have an anthropocentric tendency to see ourselves separate from the rest of the universe—as if we are somehow above or distinct from the natural world. Yet, when we examine things closely, we find that we are an intimate part of the universe’s fabric. Continue reading We Are Stardust We are literally part of the universe, not separate from it
The question of why human life exists is complex and profound, and touches upon fundamental questions about the nature of existence. Continue reading Why Does Human Life Exist? ** Why are we here?
