The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
~By Stephen Hawking ~
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
~By Alan Watts ~
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
The universe is popping all over the place.
~By Riccardo Giacconi ~
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
~By Loren Eiseley ~
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
~By Barney Frank ~
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
~By Sean Astin ~
I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.
~By Craig Bruce ~
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
~By Len Wein ~
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
~By Paul Allen ~
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
~By Corita Kent ~
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
~By Edith Wharton ~
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
~By Joan Jett ~
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
~By Paul Erdos ~
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
~By Adam Savage ~
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~By Carl Sagan ~
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
~By Steven Weinberg ~
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
~By James Gunn ~
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
~By Sylvia Ashton-Warner ~
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
~By Joyce Cary ~
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
~By John McDonald ~
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
~By Rick Moody ~
I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
~By Story Musgrave ~
This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
~By Ann Druyan ~
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
~By Wellington Mara ~
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
~By Alan Watts ~
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
Near the sun is the center of the universe.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
~By Jean Genet ~
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
~By Frank Zappa ~
It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
~By James K. Polk ~
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
~By John Woolman ~
It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
~By Yahoo Serious ~
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
~By David Brin ~
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
~By George G. Simpson ~
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~By Helmut Walcha ~
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
~By George B. McClellan ~
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
~By Anatole France ~
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~By Carl Sagan ~
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
~By Daniel Dennett ~
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
~By Vin Diesel ~
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
~By Amy Tan ~
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~By Mel Brooks ~
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
~By Michael Crichton ~
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
~By William James ~
Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
~By Jim Carrey ~
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
~By James Jeans ~
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
~By Thomas Merton ~
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
~By David Bohm ~
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.
~By George Wald ~
The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.
~By Lawrence Kutner ~
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
~By John B. S. Haldane ~
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
~By Charles Simmons ~
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
~By Dave Barry ~
Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the "good life" we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
~By Albert Claude ~
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
~By George G. Simpson ~
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~By Jean Houston ~
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
~By Michael Novak ~
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