A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest.. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
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Someone in a closed box canot tell whether he is sitting at rest in the earth's gravitational field or bein accelerated by a rocket in free space.
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Space and time are active participants in the dynamics of the cosmos.
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Space and time are relative.
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
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Matter was like a faint precipitate suspended in a world of dense light.
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[describing the radiation era that began about 1 second after the Big Bang]
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From a short sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Peter Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
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ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
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Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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What art offers is space a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
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We all need to have a creative outlet a window, a space so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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