Geoffrey West Quotes

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.

Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.