Universe Quotes
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We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.
Allan Sandage
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If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
Paul Davies
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"
Richard Feynman
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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
Plato
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Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.
Edward Frenkel
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Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
Ellen Hunnicutt
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Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
Charles Fletcher Dole
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The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.
Enos Mills
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Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.
Ernest Holmes
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My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
George Bernard Shaw
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The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
Peter Greenaway
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If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
Susan Blackmore
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Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
Deena Metzger
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
Victor Hugo
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Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
Gautama Buddha
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.
Eli Siegel
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For the longest time, Cena would be, and still is, filibustered by half the WWE universe.
Dolph Ziggler
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The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.
Arthur David Ritchie
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
Italo Calvino
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Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Willis R. Whitney