There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.René Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.René Descartes
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.Seth Shostak
It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.Seth Shostak
If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.Seth Shostak
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'Gloria Steinem
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.Alan Watts
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.Alan Watts
