The musical instrument, if you like, of the universe is beginning to wake up. And it wakes up in sequence, starting with the smallest organ pipes and ending with the largest.
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Stephen Jay Gould — The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
The universe is not a machine, however, but a living process. Time is real, and the future is genuinely open. To suppose otherwise is to mistake the map for the territory, and the clock for the heartbeat it was built to measure.
Samuel Alexander — Space, Time, and Deity
The universe is not made of stories, but of atoms — yet I find myself living inside a story I did not write, governed by rules I did not choose, and dying toward an end I cannot name. This is the human condition, and it is also its dignity.
Erwin Schrödinger — What Is Life?