If there has ever been a clearer stand against solipsism and center-of-the-universe thinking on television, I can't think of it.
Who, in this hyper self-oriented universe, stops thinking about themselves long enough to really judge someone else?'.
At the WAETAG (Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted) conference in Bellevue, Washington, in October, keynote speaker Michael Clay Thompson spoke eloquently about the need to nurture out-of the-box -- indeed, out-of-this-universe -- thinking in our children.
That same year, in a parallel automotive universe, BMW was thinking far smaller, introducing its retooled Mini to American drivers.
Even after astronomers abandoned the notion of a closed Ptolemaic universe, hierarchical thinking was not abandoned.
At some point in Friday night's wild game against Chicago, the Rangers started thinking the universe had tipped against them.
He and the men and women who worked with him were scientists, interested in puzzling out how things work, how the universe is put together; thinking God's thoughts after Him.
Tonight the movie is going to compete with this on-going inquiry about love, maybe because it is Christmas and the collective universe has us all thinking about it.
It is like thinking that the universe is infinite, unbounded, and finding it has an end somewhere".
The original question was simpler: Could the latest brushes with asteroids get people thinking about the universe more, well, cosmically?
He bravely promotes "universal responsibility" to people who want to be citizens of their own country before they start thinking about the universe.
