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Quotes about Universe


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.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tel

Jeanette Winterson

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

John Dryden

There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

John Dryden

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)

When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, "The real teacher is within you." Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart. -Sara Paddison.

Sara Paddison

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Norman Fitzroy Maclean

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Fred Hoyle

Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Roger Penrose

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Roger Penrose

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

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.

Louis Pasteur

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Indian Proverb

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Douglas Adams

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

David Bohm

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

Eden Phillpotts

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

Carl Sagan

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

William J. Broad

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

Edward P. Tryon

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