Understanding The Universe Quotes

• Nuestra especie necesita, y merece, una ciudadanía con mentes despiertas y una comprensión básica de cómo funciona el mundo.

  Carl Sagan

  Educación, Ateo, Pensamiento

  Carl Sagan (2011). "El mundo encantado por los demonios: Science as a Candle in the Dark", p.430, Ballantine Books.

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• No somos más que una raza avanzada de monos en un planeta menor de una estrella muy normal. Pero podemos entender el Universo. Eso nos convierte en algo muy especial.

  Stephen Hawking

  Estrellas, Ánimo, Humildad

  "Der Spiegel", 17 de octubre de 1988.

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• La distinción entre pasado, presente y futuro no es más que una ilusión obstinadamente persistente.

  Albert Einstein

  Amor, Vida, Dios

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• Mi objetivo es simple. Comprender completamente el universo, por qué es como es y por qué existe.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Simple, Goal

  "Stephen Hawking's Universe". Book by John Boslough, 1985.

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• I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Science, History

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Able, Principles

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). "Breve historia del tiempo: Del Big Bang a los agujeros negros", Bantam

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• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sleep, Eye, Color

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

  David Eagleman

  Understanding, Mind, Generations

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.232, Vintage

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• Tienes que tomarte en serio la noción de que comprender el universo es tu responsabilidad, porque la única comprensión del universo que te será útil es tu propia comprensión.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Mind Blowing, Understanding

  Terence McKenna (1998). "Verdaderas Alucinaciones: Y, el renacimiento arcaico", M J F Books

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• Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

  Primo Levi

  Understanding, Tables, Matter

  Primo Levi (1995). "La tabla periódica", Schocken

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• Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

  Megan Chance

  Understanding, Addresses, Logic

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• Tras haber dormido durante cien millones de siglos, por fin hemos abierto los ojos en un planeta suntuoso, resplandeciente de color y rebosante de vida. Dentro de unas décadas volveremos a cerrar los ojos. ¿No es una forma noble e iluminada de pasar nuestro breve tiempo bajo el sol trabajar para comprender el universo y cómo hemos llegado a despertar en él? Así respondo cuando me preguntan -con sorprendente frecuencia- por qué me molesto en levantarme por las mañanas.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Gratitude, Morning

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• I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

  Jane Siberry

  Understanding, Sides, Study

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• The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Order, Understanding

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• We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Understanding, Instruments, Humans

  Fuente: collider.com

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• At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

  Brian Cox

  Knowing, Understanding, Benefits

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• In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Math, Simple

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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