UNIVERSE QUOTES V

quotations about the Universe

The present-day universe is "out there," spanning immense distances and having little or no connection to how you live your daily life. But if everything you see around you needs your participation, then you are touched by the cosmos every minute of the day. To us, the biggest mystery is how human beings create their own reality--and then forget what they did.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

You Are the Universe

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As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.

KURT VONNEGUT

The Sirens of Titan

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

JULES VERNE

Journey to the Centre of the Earth


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

speech in Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 1954


There comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

CARL SAGAN

Cosmos


The universe is God's son.

DEJAN STOJANOVIC

The Sun Watches the Sun


I do not feel like an alien in the universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

FREEMAN DYSON

Disturbing the Universe


He'd tried believing in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he'd innocently started reading new books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He'd found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn't really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist.

NEIL GAIMAN & TERRY PRATCHETT

Good Omens

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

RICHARD DAWKINS

River Out of Eden

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Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?

POUL ANDERSON

The Broken Sword


I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Nemesis"

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The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

WOODY ALLEN

The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine -- it is stranger than we can imagine.

ARTHUR EDDINGTON

attributed, Rough Guide to the Universe


My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Hide and Seek

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The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

God: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris

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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe
is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman
breathing hard and about to be hungry?

SARAH LINDSAY

"Honey"

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To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas.

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

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[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

SETH LLOYD

"PopSci Q & A: Seth Lloyd Talks Quantum Computing and Quoogling", Popular Science, November 4, 2011