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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.


Muriel Rukeyser

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The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms
MURIEL RUKEYSER It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories...
MIA COUTO Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly excee...
ALAN MOORE Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists sa...
EDUARDO GALEANO Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM There should have been a period when most of the atoms in the universe were neutral. This would have...
GEORGE BECKER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. ...
WILLIAM TURNER I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she neve...
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stori...
WILLIAM TURNER Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things...
MURIEL RUKEYSER I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
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MURIEL RUKEYSER The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality
MURIEL RUKEYSER Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end, / a resting-place among the flight of things.
MURIEL RUKEYSER I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
MURIEL RUKEYSER One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being ...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the...
MURIEL RUKEYSER However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, i...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The journey is my home
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MURIEL RUKEYSER Flight is intolerable contradiction.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
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MURIEL RUKEYSER What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Life is the gift, itself. And any other additions, are the blessings!
FLOYD WILLIAMS The moment you say , , or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies b...
ESTHER HICKS Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either-...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?"
"Stories. And they give me hope.
NEIL GAIMAN The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are no...
DAVID MITCHELL THEY WILL TRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE MADE UP OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES.
THEY DON’T KNOW A DAM...
VANSHIKA DHYANI Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of l...
TOM ROBBINS The clearest mirror in the universe is not made of glass, but of a loving soul.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created i...
SHARANYA HARIDAS Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes ...
CHRIS COLFER But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn'...
CHRIS COLFER The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget...
CARL SAGAN Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Such as a universe that is not made of dead, mute, inert matter.
DAVE FREER Should we call her?Maybe we should give her a RING to see where she is? Get it? Get it?

-...
CHRIS COLFER In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: Th...
SAM KEAN For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
ELIF SAFAK 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welf...
CRAIG FERGUSON Early SETI efforts were marked by overly optimistic estimates of the probable number of extraterrest...
PETER SCHENKEL The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same ki...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspect...
MARTIN REES I think if you had someplace to escape to once in a while , it'd help you deal with whatever you're ...
CHRIS COLFER THE LAND OF STORIES Man is a piece of the universe made alive
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. W...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pi...
CARL SAGAN Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phen...
LUCRETIUS Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phen...
LUCRETIUS Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...
ALAN MOORE The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for s...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely sp...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are go...
JAAN TALLINN Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change ...
WOLFGANG KETTERLE It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and...
SHEKHAR KAPUR There is safety in numbness–
there is solace
in sleep.
LANG LEAV Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II

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