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Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

— Peter J. Carroll The Apophenion (2008)

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Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

PsyberMagick (1995)

Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.

PsyberMagick (1995)

Chaoist philosophy will again become a dominant intellectual and moral force.

Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

The evolution of consciousness is cyclic in the form of an upward spiral.

Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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