The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
- Dave Barry
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
- Carl Sagan
Is it not a firmer foundation for tranquillity to believe that all things were created, and are ordered for the best, than that the whole universe is mere bungling and blundering; nothing effected for any purpose or design, but all ill-favorably cobbled and jumbled together by the unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.
- Richard Bentley
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
- Ray Bradbury
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
- Johann Von Goethe
What blessedness it is to dwell amidst this transparent air, which the eye can pierce without limit, amidst these floods of pure, soft, cheering light, under this immeasureable arch of heaven, and in sight of these countless stars! 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
The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Christopher Morley
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
- Fred Hoyle, in the London "Observer"
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
- attributed to Fred Hoyle
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
- Sir James Jeans
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
The Universe is centered on neither the Earth nor the Sun--it is centered on God.
- Alfred Noyes
Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
- Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind
(ch. 10)
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
- Muriel Rukeyser
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- Bertrand Arthur William Russell
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
- George Santayana
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals.
- Henry David Thoreau
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson,
from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
- Walt Whitman
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
- Louis Pasteur
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
- David Bohm
