“The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
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“Oncoming traffic appears closer in the rearview mirror.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
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“Schoolmaster: But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.”
Act 2, p. 78.
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Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
2010s
Context: Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand] [... ]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem.