Quotes About Universe

#1. The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Charles W. Chesnutt

#2. Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.

Martin Rees

#3. A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. The universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

Stephen Hawking

#5. Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

#6. Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.

Christina Engela

#7. The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Freeman Dyson

#8. I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Katherine Paterson

#9. I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.

Jean Genet

#10. The universe create you to see its own beauty through your eyes.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

Tom Spanbauer

#12. Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

Craig Clevenger

#13. It was mankind and not the Almighty that had ordered the universe; only a man could look at an accident and call it a creation with Himself at the centre.

Joseph O'Connor

#14. The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

Nathaniel Branden

#15. ... the guy owns half the known universe. I hardly think he'd be all warm and fuzzy. More like dark and dangerous.

J. Kenner

#16. I owe a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay and also I owed a debt to everyone who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't got to be a person yet

John Green

#17. If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

C.S. Lewis

#18. No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Isaac Asimov

#19. Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Pythagoras

#20. But the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.

Charles G. Finney

#22. We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

George Will

#23. To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.

Robert Rankin

#24. Do not loose hope.Start now whether you are. Accept full responsibility for your actions, and trust the Mystic Law of the Universe.

Vikram Joshi

#25. I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

John Shelby Spong

#26. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

Haruki Murakami

#27. Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Hyeonseo Lee

#28. One day man will connect his
apparatus to the very wheel work of
the universe. The very forces that
motivate the planets in their orbits
and cause them to rotate will rotate
his own machinery.

Nikola Tesla

#29. So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Voltaire

#30. When you want something,the universe confires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

#31. Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

Elisabeth Elliot

#32. You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

Poppy Z. Brite

#33. Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil ... the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

Confucius

#34. Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. The chaos is on the surface.

Amit Ray

#35. The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#36. The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

Dante Alighieri

#37. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

DJ Spooky

#38. I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

Stephen Hawking

#39. Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

Walt Whitman

#40. The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.

Leah Raeder

#41. I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#42. Sweet, loveable, and with every click revealing a new surprise, 'Botanicula' creates both a wonderful world where bees and twigs play in the universe and sets up a daring story of a group of unlikely heroes taking on a tree's last hope of survival.

Rob Manuel

#43. We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

Paulo Coelho

#44. There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path.

James Rollins

#45. In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.

Michael R. French

#46. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#47. Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

Lois Greiman

#48. It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.

Joseph Conrad

#49. It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.

Makoto Shinkai

#50. Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Neel Burton

#51. Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?

Kara Dalkey

#52. Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free - albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#53. When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Neil Gaiman

#54. Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen."
-Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971

Mark Evanier

#55. Don't fight against what you don't want, instead stand for the spiritual qualities you would like to manifest in your life and watch how the universe rushes to flesh out your intentions as new life experiences.

Chaz Day

#56. He would have been horribly compelled to feel this Earth not as the bottom of a universe but as a ball spinning, and rolling onwards, both at delirious speed, and not through emptiness but through some densely inhabited and intricately structured medium.

C.S. Lewis

#57. One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

Plotinus

#58. The pain of what? The pain of the raw torn places, the damaged membranes where he'd whanged up against the Great Indifference of the Universe. One big shark's mouth, the universe. Row after row of razor-sharp teeth.

Margaret Atwood

#59. I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#60. One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

Morgan Freeman

#61. There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Albert Einstein

#62. As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

Albert Schweitzer

#63. Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#64. There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

Albert Einstein

#65. My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.

Simon Critchley

#66. Picture a hot dog bun an-... and throw all the stars, the hundreds of stars that there are in the universe into a pa-... into a ba-ag and put the universe into a bag and you all of a sudden... They become a... Ahm

Tim Heidecker

#67. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.

Jasper Fforde

#68. Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." He

Joan D. Vinge

#69. At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

Kedar Joshi

#70. Recent events lead me to believe the world is like that, too
people are the individual fragments, but we are also part of the whole mirror. We are connected, not only to one another but also to the fabric of the universe.

Wendy Mass

#71. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

Rick Cook

#72. I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

Nigella Lawson

#73. Keeping your body sound is a statement of appreciation to the entire universe.

Amber Sampson

#74. From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzled mankind with volcanic eruptions, but had its own secret way of communicating with the select few, people like Andrew who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering up something else.

Felix J. Palma

#75. Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

#76. The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?

Brian Swimme

#77. Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

John Hodgman

#78. In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me. With vein and skin He tailored this ragged body. It's just a robe worn by a Sufi, the heart. The whole universe is a khaneqah1 and He is my Shaikh.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#79. There is that in the Notre Dame fan which makes him intolerable to others, namely, his unassailable confidence that in a well-ordered universe Notre Dame is meant to win all of its games.

Ralph McInerny

#80. This generation a Shifter will arise, Hidden amongst the lost and lies. A great many will see The life that could be. The universe will shake; The greatest among us will quake. The towers will fall. The ruled will rule all.

Douglas Pershing

#81. Positive thoughts keep you in harmony with the universe.

Wayne Dyer

#82. We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture.

Olaf Stapledon

#83. It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.

Stephen Hawking

#84. The universe always
helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

Paulo Coelho

#85. The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Walter Benjamin

#86. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

Jim Butcher

#87. Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

Ruth Bernhard

#88. There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

Robert Henri

#89. The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Don Herold

#90. There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.

Ira Flatow

#91. The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

Michio Kaku

#92. I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.

Stacy London

#93. Your principal concern appears to be that the creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked.

Sam Harris

#94. To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

Mircea Eliade

#95. But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Anne Rice

#96. The alchemical idea that each of us contains the whole universe and that we are, therefore, responsible for its well-being.

Paulo Coelho

#97. The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

Craig Callender

#98. I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Padma Lakshmi

#99. The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

Yoko Ono

#100. I was Pluto, her rejected planet, but that didn't mean I could stop her from being the center of my universe.

Blakney Francis