Universe Quotes
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There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.
Terence McKenna
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Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.
Geoff Johns
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A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
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One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
Edward Boyden
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I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.
George Coyne
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I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.
Ken Liu
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Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.
Namkhai Norbu
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.
John Maynard Smith
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
Paul Eldridge
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No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond.
Heidi Hammel
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
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The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
Marianne Williamson
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Harry having drawn at golf The shape of his collapse clings to him. Who says the universe isn't soaked in disgrace?
John Updike
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The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
Leonard Susskind
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Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.
Edward Boyden
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All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.
Iain Banks
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Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.
Maurissa Tancharoen
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I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.
Mariella Frostrup
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."
C. S. Lewis
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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
George B. McClellan
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
Maxine Hong Kingston