“Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.”
How to Make a Living As a Writer
“Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.”
How to Make a Living As a Writer
“There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics. Once that germ of rationality and order exists to turn a chaos into a cosmos, then so does mathematics. There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.<!-- Ch. 5, p. 230
“The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.”
Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) American philosopher
In The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us
from (1999). Ideology. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.
“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 12
J. Moufawad-Paul Canadian academic and writer
Continuity and Rupture:Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain (2016)