Universe quotations

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◆ Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

- Criss Jami99

◆ The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

- John Muir99

◆ I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz99

◆ If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.

- Joseph Campbell99

◆ All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you're bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.

- R.J. Palacio99

◆ Why should things be easy to understand?

- Thomas Pynchon99

◆ Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.

- David Wong99

◆ The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can't get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

- Stephen Hawking99

◆ Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

- Andrew Boyd99

◆ The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

- Steve Maraboli99