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Quotes about Universe


To flesh ourselves with character we must identify ourselves, swiftly, temporarily, with one or other of our brothers and sisters of the universe

The universe exists and somebody had to make it. The whole complex movement of the universe represents order. The Creator loves order and hates chaos. Virtue is order. Sin is chaos ... The sinner often doesn't understand the extent to which he destroys order ... The soul dedicated to order joins the ultimate divine order

The universe is surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes.

The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us.

Bill Watterson

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles [The Magus, 1965]

You can't hear it, but the universe is laughing at you behind your back.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us.

Bill Watterson

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles [The Magus, 1965]

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

Samuel Grafton

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Andrew Holmes

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

David McCord

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity.

Wernher von Braun

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

I look for what needs to be done.... After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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