quotations about the Universe
The galaxy doesn't spin on your whims.
TARA K. HARPER
"Lightwing"
The god who created this universe, if he created this universe, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.
STEPHEN FRY
interview, The Meaning of Life, 2015
The universe is far stranger and far richer--more wondrously strange--than our meager human imaginations can anticipate. Modern cosmology has driven us to consider ideas that could not even have been formulated a century ago. The great discoveries of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have not only changed the world in which we operate, they have revolutionized our understanding of the world--or worlds--that exist, or may exist, just under our noses: the reality that lies hidden until we are brave enough to search for it.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
A Universe from Nothing
I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen force of which we are all a part.
ROSEMARY ALTEA
The Eagle and the Rose
In the endless universe there is nothing new, nothing different. What may appear exceptional to the minute mind of man may be inevitable to the infinite Eye of God.
ALFRED BESTER
The Demolished Man
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
VOLTAIRE
attributed, More Random Walks in Science: An Anthology
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Power of Myths
The universe continually sends us sensory messages, which we can never quite decode.
SUSAN HUBBARD
The Society of S
I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
THOMAS CARLYLE
attributed, Life of Carlyle
It's not that the universe is confusing; it's that your brain and your lifespan are both too small to understand what's out there.
IAN DALLAS
"All That Remains", Gamespot, May 7, 2017
The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
BUZZ ALDRIN
Esquire, January 2003
You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it.
ANDREW BOYD
Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
The universe is a machine for making gods.
HENRI BERGSON
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
An infinite universe is each moment opened to our view. And this universe is the sign and symbol of Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity, Bliss, and Love.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
"God Revealed in the Universe and in Humanity", Select Discourses and Essays: From the Works of William Ellery Channing
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
The universe is none of our business.
JOAN SLONCZEWSKI
Daughter of Elysium
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
EMIL CIORAN
A Short History of Decay
In the long run, when we get right down to the fundamental stuff of the universe, we'll find that there's nothing there at all -- just no-things moving no-place through no-time.
JAMES BLISH
A Case of Conscience
The universe is an intelligence test.
TIMOTHY LEARY
attributed, Cosmic Trigger