The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
~By Francis William Aston ~
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
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 ~
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
~By Steven Weinberg ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
~By Bill Watterson ~
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 ~
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
~By Seth Lloyd ~
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 ~
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
~By John Osborne ~
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
~By Alan Watts ~
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
~By Dave Barry ~
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 don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
~By Michael Novak ~
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
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 ~
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
~By John Andrew Holmes ~
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
~By Larry Wall ~
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
~By Dean Inge ~
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 ~
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 ~
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
~By Alan Watts ~
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
~By John Astin ~
I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.
~By Peter Cook ~
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~By Buddha ~
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~By Lao Tzu ~
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 ~
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
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 ~
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
~By Anais Nin ~
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
~By James Martineau ~
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 ~
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
~By Alicia Machado ~
Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
~By Ella Maillart ~
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 ~
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The universe is an intelligence test.
~By Timothy Leary ~
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
~By Sai Baba ~
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 ~
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
~By Rebecca West ~
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.
~By Brad Dourif ~
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
~By James Jeans ~
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
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 ~
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 ~
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.
~By Lexa Doig ~
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
~By Judith Wright ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~By Mel Brooks ~
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Music is part of God's universe.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
~By Norman Cousins ~
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 ~
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
~By Orlando Gibbons ~
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
~By John Grierson ~
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
~By Robert Nozick ~
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
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 ~
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.
~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
~By Neil Young ~
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
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 ~
I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.
~By Sonia Braga ~
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
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 ~
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