The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
~By Karl Pearson ~
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
~By Robert Benchley ~
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
~By Bill Watterson ~
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.
~By Sue Kelly ~
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
~By David Deutsch ~
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
~By Russell Brand ~
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
~By Joy Page ~
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
~By Lawrence Summers ~
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
~By John Travolta ~
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
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 ~
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.
~By Greg Bear ~
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
~By Brian Greene ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
~By Arthur H. Compton ~
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
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 ~
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
~By Henry Norris Russell ~
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
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 ~
Man is a universe within himself.
~By Bob Marley ~
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
~By John Joly ~
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
~By Little Richard ~
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
~By John Steinbeck ~
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
~By Carl Sagan ~
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
~By John Muir ~
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
~By Brian Greene ~
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~By Lao Tzu ~
In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
~By Jessi Colter ~
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 ~
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
~By Alan Moore ~
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
~By Jami Gertz ~
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 ~
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
~By James Jeans ~
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
~By Yahoo Serious ~
It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.
~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
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 ~
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
~By Peter De Vries ~
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
~By Terry Prachett ~
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
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 ~
That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~By Mel Brooks ~
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
~By E. M. Forster ~
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
~By Paul Davies ~
In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
~By Alexander Scriabin ~
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
~By Stephen Hawking ~
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
~By Mary Lyon ~
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 ~
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
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 ~
The universe is popping all over the place.
~By Riccardo Giacconi ~
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
~By Alan Watts ~
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
~By Walt Whitman ~
I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.
~By Peter Cook ~
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 ~
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~By Edwin Powell Hubble ~
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
~By Buddha ~
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