If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'Seth Shostak
One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet.Seth Shostak
Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places - that might change our lives in a very subtle way, but it's interesting to know and worth looking for.Seth Shostak
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.Alan Watts
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.Alan Watts
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.Alan Watts
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.Alan Watts
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.Alan Watts
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.Alan Watts
