I talk to the universe all the time.
~By Ted Lange ~
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
~By Andre Malraux ~
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
~By Michael Behe ~
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 ~
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
~By Henry Arthur Jones ~
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
~By Carl Sagan ~
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 ~
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
~By Carl Sagan ~
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
~By Larry Wall ~
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 ~
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
~By James Jeans ~
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.
~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
~By Harlan Ellison ~
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
~By Walt Whitman ~
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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 ~
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
~By Alan Watts ~
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.
~By Gordon Gee ~
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 ~
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 ~
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
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 ~
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
~By James H. Breasted ~
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
~By James Jeans ~
One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
~By John G. D. Clark ~
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
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 ~
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
~By Democritus ~
I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
~By Tony Snow ~
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 ~
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
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 ~
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
~By Marguerite Young ~
In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.
~By Julius Erving ~
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
~By Robert Benchley ~
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
~By Fay Wray ~
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 ~
I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.
~By William Lyons ~
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
~By Chris Chocola ~
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
~By Yukio Mishima ~
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 ~
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
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 ~
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~By Mel Brooks ~
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
~By Carl Sagan ~
You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.
~By Robert Patrick ~
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 ~
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
~By John Burroughs ~
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
~By Len Wein ~
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 ~
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
~By Edwin Powell Hubble ~
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
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 ~
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
~By Bill Moyers ~
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
~By Thales ~
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
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 ~
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
~By Henry Fielding ~
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
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 ~
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 ~
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
~By Scott Adams ~
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 ~
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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 ~
I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.
~By Sonia Braga ~
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