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the study of the origin of the universe- She believes in the Big Bang theory of cosmology.
- The steady-state theory of cosmology suggests that the universe is constantly producing matter and infinitely expanding.
- the multiverse hypothesis in cosmology speculates that ours may be but one of many universes
- the seven-headed snake deity of the Hindu-Buddhist cosmology
- They think that what's true for acute physical processes is probably applicable to cosmology itself.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- ALBERT EINSTEIN published his general theory of relativity in 1916, profoundly affecting the study of physics and cosmology for years.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Like Reverend Hale and the others on this stage, we conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- A parent, intentionally or not, imposes a cosmology on the little child—Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Besides, I was trying to get the hang of his cosmology, so I egged him on, sometimes even badgered him into narrating Haiti.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- For although it might be tolerable if human reason and knowledge held themselves within earthly bounds and treated the subject-object experience as real within that sphere, the moment it reached out into the eternal riddle, into so-called cosmology or cosmogony, the joke was over, and presumptu-ousness had achieved the acme of monstrosity.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Every morning before dawn our Base Camp sirdar-an avuncular, highly respected, forty Prayer flags are printed with holy Buddhist invocations-most commonly om manipadm hum-which are dispatched to God with each flap of the pennant. often prayer flags bear the red creatures in the Sherpa image of a winged horse in addition to written prayers; horses are sac cosmology and are believed to carry the prayers heavenward with special speed.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- "My work includes as much of physics and cosmology as I can take in," Alessandro said, "but that hardly makes me a physicist."Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- According to her mother's cosmology, the world was against her and no one could change this, because this was a curse.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- And I was thinking, how about including a section on the cosmology imparted by television as artificial caregiver?Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- All right, so we assume everyone understands cosmology.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Cosmology, let's see .... what we believe, subconsciously, implicitly, or both, how the universe works—you want to add something?Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- We go on to say that parents pass along this cosmology to children through their behaviors, their reactions to daily events, often mundane—You look puzzled.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
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