Universe Quotes
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Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
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Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.
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All change is relative. The universe is expanding relatively to our common material standards; our material standards are shrinking relatively to the size of the universe. The theory of the 'expanding universe' might also be called the theory of the 'shrinking atom'. <...>
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I grew up in this business... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet... and to understand our place in the universe.
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Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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Travers's Mary Poppins was a natural phenomena, ancient as mountain ranges, on first-name terms with the primal powers of the universe, adored and respected by everything that saw the world as it was. And she was a mystery. … philosophically, I suspect now, the universe of Mary Poppins underpins all my writing …
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
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When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.
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Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.
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It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.
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…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
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If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.
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As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
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We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.
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Jochum had said, 'You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer.'
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Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.
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Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
