Quotes About Universes

#1. We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we're happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it's okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.

Heidi Priebe

#2. As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

Freeman Dyson

#3. Stop a drunk driver and you stop a murderer - even if he hasn't killed anyone yet. In all the alternate universes, the odds are he's already killed - and will kill again.

Jarod Kintz

#4. The whistling of a ghost is like no other sound in a fistful of universes, because it is woven of all the whistles the ghost has ever heard, and so it usually includes train moans, lunch whistles, fire alarms, and the affronted-virgin screaming of tea kettles.

Peter S. Beagle

#5. I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Alice Hoffman

#6. Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.

Kelly Barnhill

#7. If you are to believe that there are an infinite amount of universes with an infinite amount of possible variations on the laws of nature, then you are forced to admit that it is quite certain that in one of these parallel worlds dragons exist.

Lewis N. Roe

#8. I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.

Stephen Wolfram

#9. There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Philip Jose Farmer

#10. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met in a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower.

Stephen King

#11. Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.

D.L. Orton

#12. As Douglas Adams wryly observed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes!

Marcus Chown

#13. I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Alfonso Cuaron

#14. 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

#15. ... only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: "Why is the universe the way we see it?" The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!

Stephen Hawking

#16. The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees.
Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong

Rob Brezsny

#17. You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#18. No one day is like another,each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars are created.

Paulo Coelho

#19. You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.

Frederick Lenz

#20. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

Douglas Adams

#21. Might they just be two ways of saying the same thing? Suppose 'Heave' and 'Hell' are just other universes.

Laini Taylor

#22. Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. She scanned the Starveil posts, her mood darkening. Spartan had been a part of her life since elementary school. Losing him felt like having a piece of herself torn away. No amount of fix-it fics or alternate universes could change the fact her one true character had died.

Danika Stone

#24. Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn't dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.

Michelle M. Pillow

#25. Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

Robert Lanza

#26. You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.

Ruben Dario

#27. Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

Frederick Lenz

#28. Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly?
The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse.
Rose Tyler: So?

Russell T. Davies

#29. Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

Tibor Fischer

#30. A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness.
It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.

Banana Yoshimoto

#31. The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

Joseph Weizenbaum

#32. Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes...

Alison McGhee

#33. There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

Anaximander

#34. One theory is that the universe came from nothing. i.e. perhaps bubble-universes collided, as in a bubble bath, and gave birth to the universe. Or perhaps the big bang was created by a bubble-universe which split into two universes. The universe does seem to be compatible with nothing.

Michio Kaku

#35. Goldilocks effect" - that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now,

Bill Bryson

#36. None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.

Anthony Doerr

#37. Orolo said, What if these two universes - each as big and as old and as complicated as ours - were entirely separate, except for a single photon that managed to travel somehow between them. Would that be enough to wrench A's time and B's time into perfect lockstep for all eternity?

Neal Stephenson

#38. I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Max Minghella

#39. I've seen other universes. I've been to them.
And I destroyed them.

Laini Taylor

#40. Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears.

Bryan Islip

#41. Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Joshua Foer

#42. One may also inhabit the limen, the place in between realities, a gap 'between and betwixt' universes of sense that construe social life and persons differently, an interstice from where one can most clearly stand critically toward different structures.

Maria Lugones

#43. That's what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.

Iain Thomas

#44. If there were an infinite number of universes, did that mean that one of them had to be perfect? And if one of the was paradise, did that me that another one had to be hell?

Josephine Angelini

#45. In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.

Nick Payne

#46. When I say the word You, I mean
a hundred universes.

Rumi

#47. Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of frakkin' power!"
"Dude," Cruz said. "You shouldn't mix swears from different universes.

Ernest Cline

#48. I found it fascinating that there could be so many realities. There was the truth, which was the world we lived. There was also the worlds we would create for ourselves in our minds. In truth, there are countless universes and realities hiding within all of mankind.

Melissa C. Water

#49. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Douglas Adams

#50. In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.

Frederick Lenz

#51. 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.

Robert Nozick

#52. All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.

Frederick Lenz

#53. I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

Errol Morris

#54. I could go to a million universes and never find someone else who could make me feel this way. Only my Paul. Only him.

Claudia Gray

#55. It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.

James P. Hogan

#56. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Alberto Manguel

#57. Our heads, the little globes which hold the midnight sky and the shining, invisible universes of thought, have been taken about as much for granted as the growth of a yellow pumpkin in the fall.

Loren Eiseley

#58. Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.

Phil Morris

#59. Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

Michio Kaku

#60. Is it necessary to believe in the existence of the six realms and the heavens and hells to be a Buddhist? Not necessarily. It is possible to interpret these as, perhaps, referring to other dimensions of existence, parallel universes, or simply states of mind.

Damien Keown

#61. Ach of the bubble universes appears to have finite spatial extent when examined from the outside, but infinite spatial extent when examined from the inside.

Brian Greene

#62. Kahana was the first to close the distance between them, joining their two universes into one. Stars exploded and meteors crashed into planets as they shared a kiss that felt like more than just magic. It was love.

Aishabella Sheikh

#63. They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.

Paolo Giordano

#64. All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

Frederick Lenz

#65. We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole.

Michio Kaku

#66. Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter.

Frederick Lenz

#67. It doesn't matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.

Mary E. Pearson

#68. Infinity fascinated her. How systems and universes could keep getting infinitely smaller in one direction and infinitely larger in another. How the shape of an atom so precisely mimicked the shape of the solar system. How there wasn't an end to anything.

Wendy Wunder

#69. His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness - that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.

Kurt Vonnegut

#70. If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us;at the same time, look at any one of us in the vast space I am seeing out the window of this bus, which is a molecule on a cell on a flea on a hair on a wart of the known universe.

Chris Crutcher

#71. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#72. To postulate a trillion-trillion other universes, rather than one God, in order to explain the orderliness of our universe, seems the height of irrationality.

John C. Lennox

#73. A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

Mac O'Grady

#74. Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.

Eli Pariser

#75. 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.

Stephen Hawking

#76. You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations

Frederick Lenz

#77. Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.

Stephen Hawking

#78. The only true voyage of discovery ... would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust

#79. 'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.

Seth Shostak

#80. Magical obsession is the experience of radical curiosity and wonderment much like the consciousness of a child at Disneyland. It's a state of awareness that presents abnormal, spontaneous opportunities, effortlessly. It is the experience of your wish being the universes desire.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#81. We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.

Frederick Lenz

#82. His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

Frederick Lenz

#83. Men destroy countries; Women destroy universes.

Fredrick

#84. The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

Deepak Chopra

#85. I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#86. The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Brian Greene

#87. Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.

Jane Roberts

#88. Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#89. The world could screech to a halt on its axis and the dock could be swept out to sea in an apocalyptic current, and we wouldn't notice. Our universes have condensed into each other.

Kirsten Hubbard

#90. The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth," recited Orphu, "would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is.

Dan Simmons

#91. A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

Neal Stephenson

#92. The numbers of universes perceived by human beings does not equal the population of the planet, but several times the population of the planet. It thus appears some sort of miracle that we sometimes find it possible to communicate with each other at all, at all.

Robert Anton Wilson

#93. No day is like another, each morning has a special miracle that magic moment in which it destroys old universes and new stars are created.

Paulo Coelho

#94. Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.

Emily Bronte

#95. There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

Rumi

#96. Gabriel might always have his own best interests at heart, but he expects everyone else to do the same for themselves. To him, we are all the center of our own universes.

Kelley Armstrong

#97. I'm really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain three universes worth of books. It's worth it to lose something in translation, if you can get a hundred more texts that are going to change your life.

Arshia Sattar

#98. In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which we can escape and exercise our love for all things beyond our ken. close off these speculative worlds at your peril.

Ella Berthoud

#99. Quantum computation is ... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature ... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

David Deutsch

#100. Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist ... we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Jonathan Safran Foer