The most important statement ever?

[Tony Erikson 10]

"The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Carl Sagan

 

What do you think to the above statement? I remember when I first heard it my mind woke up. How simple yet magnificent a way to look at the things around us. It doesn't imply a creator, it doesn't imply a reason for our existence. It just simply states what we are.

 

What's your favourite statement?

[Noob 10]

"When the seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" (Eric Cantona, 31 March 1995).

[chem1st 10]

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity

[wotsits 10]

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity

 

Madness is genius. Genius cannot cope with itself. Alot of the most intelligent and imaginative people use things to cope with there minds. The mad artist etc.

 

You can't escape your own brain.

[Ben_H 10]

'The Emperor is trying to control outer space, Yoda is trying to control inner space!' - Moff, Human Traffic.

 

‘The saying shouldn’t be “You want to have your cake and eat it”, it should be “You can’t eat your cake and have it”.’ - A film director

[horribleblob 212]

"The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Carl Sagan

 

What do you think to the above statement? I remember when I first heard it my mind woke up. How simple yet magnificent a way to look at the things around us. It doesn't imply a creator, it doesn't imply a reason for our existence. It just simply states what we are.

 

What's your favourite statement?

 

Methinks our Carl was a bit of a buddhist. I like "Cada uno de nosotros podemos hacer algo" / "Each one of us can do something" from Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (until his assassination in 1980).

[esme 10]

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

- Lawrence Krauss

[purdyamos 10]

"The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Carl Sagan

 

 

 

To which the only answer surely is:

 

"Well that about wraps it up for God." Douglas Adams.

[Grandad.Malky 11]

with this ring I thee wed

[Nagel 10]

"When the wind catches your grin it flies across the sky and makes another nice person happy"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDGbaGcCEE

[spooky3 10]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F

[Harleyman 12]

"Freedom of speech and expression is never a crime but only a crime by those who would seek to suppress it"