‘Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.’ – Plato

‘To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’ – Albert Einstein

‘There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.’ – John Muir

‘You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.’ – Buddha

‘Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.’ – Lana Del Rey

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

‘Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.’ – Carl Sagan

‘I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.’ – Frank Zappa

‘We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.’ – Jessica Lange

‘Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.’ – Alan Watts

‘The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.’ – John Hartford

‘The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.’ – Galileo Galilei

‘Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.’ – Guy Finley

‘I want to show the world, the universe rather, that I am confidently beautiful with a heart.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘You may have the universe if I may have Italy.’ – Giuseppe Verdi

‘There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.’ – Douglas Adams

‘Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.’ – Edwin Powell Hubble

‘I believe that rejection is a blessing because it’s the universe’s way of telling you that there’s something better out there.’ – Michelle Phan

‘Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.’ – Muriel Rukeyser

‘They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.’ – Steven Wright

‘Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.’ – Vangelis

‘All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.’ – George Carlin

‘If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.’ – David Hume

‘The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.’ – Michio Kaku

‘The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.’ – Eden Phillpotts

‘A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.’ – Rumi

‘I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘One of the things you can always depend on – this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here – whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.’ – Morgan Freeman

‘Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different – the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.’ – Stanley B. Prusiner

‘I want to put a ding in the universe.’ – Steve Jobs

‘It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.’ – John Holmes

‘The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.’ – Harlan Ellison

‘It takes a planet to explore the universe.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Man is a universe within himself.’ – Bob Marley

‘The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.’ – Bill Watterson

‘Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.’ – Erwin Schrodinger

‘In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.’ – Jim Carrey

‘With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing ‘philosophy of the universe’ through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call ‘stereotypical repetition.” – Yayoi Kusama

‘The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.’ – Neil Young

‘Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.’ – William Blake

‘Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.’ – Paul Auster

‘Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.’ – Thales

‘I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.’ – Alice Walker

‘God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.’ – Paul Erdos

‘Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘I think the universe is pure geometry – basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.’ – Antony Garrett Lisi

‘We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The true key of the universe is love.’ – William Godwin

‘Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.’ – Morris Gleitzman

‘What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?’ – Jacques Lacan

‘If your ego starts out, ‘I am important, I am big, I am special,’ you’re in for some disappointments when you look around at what we’ve discovered about the universe. No, you’re not big. No, you’re not. You’re small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that’s limited on Earth.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.’ – Kanye West

‘Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘The universe is an intelligence test.’ – Timothy Leary

‘I’ve never been particularly religious, but I have recently acknowledged the universe and it’s crazy powers, and that will probably fluctuate for the rest of my life.’ – Cameron Boyce

‘Humor is just another defense against the universe.’ – Mel Brooks

‘All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‘Lord God.” – Isaac Newton

‘I’m just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.’ – Temuera Morrison

‘The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.’ – Werner Herzog

‘Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.’ – e. e. cummings

‘Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.’ – Sally Ride

‘The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something – or Someone – beyond itself.’ – Eric Metaxas

‘Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.’ – Dan Millman

‘Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto

‘There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It’s not there by chance.’ – Roger Penrose

‘There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.’ – John McDonald

‘For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.’ – Leonhard Euler

‘The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.’ – John Piper

‘We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.’ – Charles Darwin

‘If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.’ – Carl Sagan

‘The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.’ – Mae Jemison

‘Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.’ – Sai Baba

‘The constitution of the universe is total natural law. ‘Natural law,’ we say from the field of science. ‘Will of God,’ we say from the field of religion. It’s the same thing.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.’ – Dave Barry

‘The universe can take quite a while to deliver.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.’ – Heraclitus

‘Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.’ – Amy Tan

‘You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.’ – Alan Watts

‘You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.’ – Ashley Smith

‘You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.’ – Maria Mitchell

‘The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.’ – Catharine Beecher

‘The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.’ – Walt Whitman

‘If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.’ – Guru Nanak

‘We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Actually, I believe in everything, including astrology and tarot cards. All of it is just another way for people to try and tighten the link to the spirits in our universe. I believe it exists for all people.’ – Billy Dee Williams

‘Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.’ – Thomas Paine

‘My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.’ – George Santayana

‘Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.’ – Koena Mitra

‘Words have power. Words created this universe… Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, ‘In the beginning was the word.’ In the same way, your words have creative power.’ – Bo Sanchez

‘Order is manifestly maintained in the universe… governed by the sovereign will of God.’ – James Prescott Joule

‘Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.’ – James Jeans

‘I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.’ – John Green

‘Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.’ – Alan Moore

‘Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.’ – Gulzar

‘Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.’ – Adam Neumann

‘Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘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.’ – Charlie Dent

‘Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.’ – Tim Cook

‘Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.’ – Albert Camus

‘I live in an abundant universe where anything is possible.’ – NLE Choppa

‘Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.’ – Charles Simmons

‘The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.’ – Dmitri Mendeleev

‘The universe itself was created by the sound waves which that almighty created. So music and spirituality go together. Everything is interconnected.’ – Diljit Dosanjh

‘In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.’ – Shekhar Kapur

‘My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That’s all I do all day.’ – Ram Dass

‘The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.’ – Peter De Vries

‘And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.’ – Chris Chocola

‘The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.’ – Mary Lyon

‘I definitely consider myself a Christian. There’s things that I believe in, there’s things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.’ – Big Sean

‘A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.’ – Grace Slick

‘The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.’ – Ansel Adams

‘The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, ‘Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.’ We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.’ – Ilaiyaraaja

‘Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.’ – Edith Wharton

‘Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, ‘Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?’ The Great Creator answered, ‘You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.” – George Washington Carver

‘What we call the ‘world’ and the ‘universe’ is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.’ – David Icke

‘My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘We should get used to the idea that we’ll probably never be able to find – and confirm – a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can’t press much further on this question than we have managed to date.’ – Daniel Dennett

‘Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like Earth and the other rocky terrestrials, is just another step in the revolution in viewpoint that removed the Earth from the center of the physical universe and makes Earth all the more special.’ – Alan Stern

‘Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.’ – Hannes Alfven

‘In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change – ask a thirteen-year-old.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God’s best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know – the God of the universe – already knows.’ – Bob Goff

‘If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.’ – Carl Sagan

‘Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.’ – Anatole France

‘Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the ‘good life’ we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.’ – James Baldwin

‘The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.’ – John Muir

‘When I learn something new – and it happens every day – I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.’ – Bill Moyers

‘Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.’ – Democritus

‘I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.’ – Tom Robbins

‘Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Everything we know about the universe is studied by using telescopes or other instruments that look at visible light, infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray – different wavelengths of electromagnetic interactions. Only 4 percent of what’s in the universe gives off electromagnetic radiation, so we don’t have any handle on the rest.’ – Barry Barish

‘The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn’t fight for petty things.’ – Manal al-Sharif

‘If you walk on the path of truth all the powers in the universe help you.’ – Arvind Kejriwal

‘If I were to be Miss Universe, I will use my voice to influence the youth and I would raise awareness to certain causes like HIV awareness that is timely and relevant to my country which is the Philippines.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.’ – David Bowie

‘Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.’ – LZ Granderson

‘This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘The arrow of time doesn’t move forward forever. There’s a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there’s no more arrow of time.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Once a star dies, it’s gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It’s an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we’re alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It’s an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences.’ – David Grinspoon

‘I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn’t believe in myself.’ – Kali Uchis

‘Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.’ – Caroline Knapp

‘Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.’ – Janos Bolyai

‘The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone’s actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral – in a word, that there is a Universal Order.’ – Jean Piaget

‘I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.’ – Aleister Crowley

‘Nothing is accidental in the universe – this is one of my Laws of Physics – except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.’ – Jean Houston

‘I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.’ – Maxine Hong Kingston

‘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

‘I said it’s a cold universe and I don’t mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it’s cold. It’s really cold and we don’t know what’s up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there’s a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?’ – David Chase

‘When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents.’ – Tracy K. Smith

‘It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.’ – Russell Brand

‘I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call ‘field’ consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.’ – Ashoke Sen

‘The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.’ – Paul Valery

‘The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.’ – Woody Allen

‘The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.’ – Ernest Holmes

‘A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.’ – Michael Shermer

‘Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.’ – Toyah Willcox

‘Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.’ – Anais Nin

‘Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of ‘This is the way the world should be,’ and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.’ – Suzy Kassem

‘There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer the case.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘If I’m having a stressful day, I can look at the sky and feel centered again and realize I’m just a tiny little dot in this whole universe and that, actually, everything’s going to be just fine.’ – Mia Goth

‘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

‘The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.’ – Lawrence Kutner

‘Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.’ – Elif Safak

‘The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future – an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.’ – Fela Kuti

‘There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.’ – Martin Rees

‘I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.’ – John Coltrane

‘The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.’ – Kenneth L. Pike

‘I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a ‘citizen of the universe.” – Ruth Asawa

‘Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.’ – Alan Watts

‘Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.’ – Jose Marti

‘The universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.’ – Nancy Thayer

‘Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.’ – Annie Jump Cannon

‘I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.’ – Buddha

‘I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.’ – Benjamin Banneker

‘The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.’ – Fritz Zwicky

‘That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.’ – Albert Einstein

‘During my time, fortunately or unfortunately, I had no idea what Miss Universe was supposed to be like because nobody from India had won the title before me.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.’ – Mark Hamill

‘The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.’ – Francis Collins

‘While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.’ – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

‘Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.’ – Demi Lovato

‘Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I’ve always lived by that.’ – Ruby Rose

‘Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘I don’t think I’m inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy… thing. And I’m very drawn to female energy, but I don’t really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.’ – SZA

‘Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.’ – Billy Zane

‘Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.’ – Rudolf Otto

‘We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.’ – Carlos Castaneda

‘There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I’ve been transported to another universe.’ – Susan Isaacs

‘The universe is one of God’s thoughts.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘I learnt about the universe. I learnt about human rights and human dignity – this was so new to me.’ – Park Yeon-mi

‘The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.’ – Robert Lanza

‘From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I’ve been going every summer since I was a child. I love everything about that place: waterfalls, high-quality rock, history.’ – Tommy Caldwell

‘What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein’s statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.’ – Merce Cunningham

‘The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.’ – Carl Sagan

‘I’m not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.’ – Mae Jemison

‘People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn’t. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it’s gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.’ – Shawn Michaels

‘Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.’ – Jean Genet

‘I love the simplicity of the Cube because it’s a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it’s the study of how the whole universe is structured.’ – Erno Rubik

‘I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.’ – Yukio Mishima

‘There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘You can either go down the stage like everybody else, or you can go through the crowd like Roman Reigns. I’d take going through the crowd, the WWE Universe, every day of the week.’ – Roman Reigns

‘One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one’s own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.’ – Mikhail Sholokhov

‘We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.’ – Heart Evangelista

‘The usefulness of religion – the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good – is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It’s not an argument that it’s reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.’ – Sam Harris

‘Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.’ – Paul Davies

‘Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect – but maybe the universe doesn’t insist on cause and effect.’ – Edward M. Lerner

‘The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally ‘appearances,’ the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more ‘material’ and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.’ – Annie Besant

‘The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘I’m not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.’ – Lana Parrilla

‘Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.’ – Serge Schmemann

‘Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential – do not let your heart waver!’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.’ – Dayananda Saraswati

‘There was no ‘before’ the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.’ – John D. Barrow

‘We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.’ – Sherry Turkle

‘Out of all the ridiculous religion stories – which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous – the silliest one I’ve ever heard is, ‘Yeah, there’s this big, giant universe, and it’s expanding, and it’s all going to collapse on itself, and we’re all just here, just ‘cuz. Just ‘cuz.’ That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.’ – Trey Parker

‘Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.’ – Rick Wilson

‘There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.’ – Herman Melville

‘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

‘It’s truly a new day ever since we graced the WWE Universe with our presence. Every time we come out there, you see us being funny, having fun, entertaining people and, of course, preaching the power of positivity. That’s what New Day is all about.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘The games after ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3′ will not exist in the movie universe. Like it or hate it, I felt that this was the best portion of the storyline to really focus in on.’ – Scott Cawthon

‘The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.’ – Joe Mays

‘What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They’re managing billions, yet they’re subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.’ – Ron Chernow

‘An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.’ – Bat for Lashes

‘I think Miss Universe is wonderful platform that we promote diversity and women empowerment. Why? Because we are achieved women who have stories, who have passions, who have careers.’ – Catriona Gray

‘A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let’s have peace.’ – Mickey Rooney

‘I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that’s a completely different thing. I’ve written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but I’d much rather live in a universe without one.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘Let’s detox our cluttered academic brain. That’s what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It’s being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.’ – Juan Felipe Herrera

‘From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I’m convinced by now free will is what we call the biology that hasn’t been discovered yet. It’s just another way of stating that we’re biological organisms determined by the physical laws of the universe.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.’ – Loren Eiseley

‘Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.’ – E. M. Forster

‘The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.’ – Nick Cummins

‘We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.’ – Alan Watts

‘The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘I’m not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.’ – Calvin Klein

‘For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.’ – Richard Baker

‘Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.’ – John Burroughs

‘The universe is wider than our views of it.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.’ – Carlton Fisk

‘Near the sun is the center of the universe.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.’ – Simon Kuznets

‘The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?’ – Paul Bloom

‘It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.’ – Carl Sagan

‘The universe is transformation: life is opinion.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.’ – Michael Keaton

‘String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.’ – Brian Greene

‘In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.’ – Sam Kean

‘Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.’ – Little Richard

‘Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.’ – John Steinbeck

‘There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.’ – Frank Zappa

‘In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.’ – Gunter Blobel

‘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

‘It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe – whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence – man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.’ – Sean MacBride

‘The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we’re correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe.’ – Robert J. Sawyer

‘God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes – but is that all?’ – Walt Whitman

‘When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.’ – John Muir

‘We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years’ time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn’t really interest me.’ – Melvyn Bragg

‘The human’s place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.’ – Walter Gilbert

‘I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.’ – Omari Hardwick

‘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

‘Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there’s only two possible explanations: you’re really stupid, or you’re really cynical and trying to get really stupid people’s votes.’ – James Carville

‘With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any… I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.’ – Ada Lovelace

‘After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I’d tapped into parts of my body that I hadn’t before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.’ – Flea

‘When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.’ – Kip Thorne

‘The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did… until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.’ – Ted Chiang

‘Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.’ – Steven Weinberg

‘I don’t think my competition is with the heroes. I don’t think I’m competing with anyone. I don’t mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I’m living in a universe of my own, and I’m enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people’s work.’ – Vidya Balan

‘Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.’ – Galileo Galilei

‘In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘In love’s godlike breathing, there’s the innermost aspect of the universe.’ – Alexander Scriabin

‘The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.’ – Howard Nemerov

‘So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.’ – Robert Lanza

‘I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.’ – Alexander Ludwig

‘It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – ‘In the beginning, God.” – Arthur Compton

‘A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!’ – Carla Hall

‘The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.’ – Masanobu Fukuoka

‘I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.’ – Joan Jett

‘I would hope the pages would be blank, and every time you flipped the page, a beautiful picture would form. The universe knows where I’m going, and I’m just gonna let it do what it does.’ – Ahmad Balshe

‘The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.’ – Philip K. Dick

‘My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.’ – Marguerite Young

‘Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.’ – John Polkinghorne

‘All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.’ – Alice Walker

‘There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.’ – Giuseppe Garibaldi

‘In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don’t know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I’ll get it.’ – Janis Joplin

‘All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.’ – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

‘I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe… is by talking very strongly about what we believe.’ – Penn Jillette

‘Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.’ – Eric Kandel

‘There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘There is magic in my universe, but it’s pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.’ – George R. R. Martin

‘You see, Hinduism is not confined to the strictness of the desert, but belongs to the universe. Judaism, Christianity and Islam become limited by desert boundaries, but Hinduism is much freer – there are no set rules.’ – Saeed Jaffrey

‘Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.’ – Tom Flynn

‘Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.’ – John Joly

‘We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.’ – Joyce Cary

‘I wanted to make the world of ‘The Last Book in the Universe’ as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same.’ – Rodman Philbrick

‘The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.’ – Mae Jemison

‘I made history being crowned the second black woman to win Miss U.S.A. and I was fifth place in The Miss Universe pageant.’ – Kenya Moore

‘Love makes no sense at all. But it’s the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.’ – Glenn Close

‘We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.’ – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.’ – Henry Norris Russell

‘Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.’ – Christopher Morley

‘Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.’ – Kenneth L. Pike

‘We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.’ – Adam Riess

‘The universe doesn’t owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn’t owe us a nice warm feeling inside.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don’t know the punchline.’ – John Lloyd

‘I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn’t been created by some great intelligence. But she would get even more annoyed than my father did when she thought that people were invoking God to do their jobs for them – for example, when she saw a bus with a sticker saying ‘Allah Protect Us.” – Elif Batuman

‘I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude… I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I’m still pondering.’ – Fred Kavli

‘The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.’ – Ram Dass

‘The Qur’an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.’ – Said Nursi

‘The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.’ – Michio Kaku

‘So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.’ – Carl Sagan

‘String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies – are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.’ – Brian Greene

‘If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.’ – Berkeley Breathed

‘We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.’ – Edwin Powell Hubble

‘Technology is us. There is no separation. It’s a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn’t exist anywhere else in the universe. I’m rather sure of that.’ – David Cronenberg

‘I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.’ – Bob Brown

‘We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.’ – Brian Schmidt

‘I’m delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.’ – Vangelis

‘Dark matter is one of the dominant constituents of the universe, which piled up in certain parts of the universe due to gravity, and in those regions, galaxies were formed. It is the unseen thing that holds the universe together.’ – Priyamvada Natarajan

‘There’s that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away – how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.’ – Dan Aykroyd

‘There’s life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.’ – George Wald

‘Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.’ – Robert Anton Wilson

‘We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.’ – Lee Smolin

‘We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.’ – Jerome K. Jerome

‘We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.’ – Jose Clemente Orozco

‘The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.’ – Vin Diesel

‘Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.’ – Daniel D. Palmer

‘It’s shocking to think of the universe now without Robin Williams’ energy, even muted.’ – Bill Irwin

‘What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.’ – Rick Warren

‘If you’re creating a whole universe, even if it’s a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little bit of sleight of hand.’ – Alastair Reynolds

‘From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.’ – Jean Piaget

‘While I’m a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it’s the real universe that calls to me.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Although one soul lives in the whole body, and all the body’s members are controlled by one soul, still the whole body and the whole soul and the parts of the universe are vivified by a certain total spirit.’ – Giordano Bruno

‘I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.’ – Daniel Dennett

‘I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.’ – Robert Lanza

‘Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.’ – Albert Einstein

‘My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She’s a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.’ – Arundhati Roy

‘I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome – and even comforting – than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don’t know if it’s true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that’s a fantasy you can’t make up.’ – Joyce DeWitt

‘The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.’ – Alan Watts

‘How can the human race be, like, the only living form in the universe? There have to be other life forms out there. I believe it.’ – Christopher Mintz-Plasse

‘First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

”Better Call Saul’ happens in the same universe as ‘Breaking Bad,’ and we have the same writers and mostly the same crew. Like ‘Breaking Bad,’ it is a transformation story, and Bob Odenkirk brings his own distinctive flavour.’ – Michael Mando

‘The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.’ – Karl Pearson

‘Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It’s completely non-practical, and you can’t use it for anything. But it’s about the universe and how the world came into being. It’s very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.’ – Yuri Milner

‘One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.’ – Robin Ince

‘Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we’ll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we’re promised is much more interesting than that. It’s new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.’ – N. T. Wright

‘The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?’ – Edwin Markham

‘So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I want to do ‘Chicago P.D.’ for as long as it’s on the air. I love the show; I love the Dick Wolf family. I think he’s created something genius with the crossovers and having everyone on these shows inhabit the same universe as far as ‘Chicago Med’ and ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Chicago P.D.” – Jesse Lee Soffer

‘If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.’ – Yoko Ono

‘The universe is very big – there’s about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I’m pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don’t believe we’re alone.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.’ – Octavio Paz

‘Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.’ – Buddha

‘My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, ‘You bastards.’ I walked out and went to Waffle House. That’s where I had what I call ‘The Waffle House Epiphany’: I didn’t want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we’re tackling these mysteries one by one. If you’re going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.’ – Adrienne Rich

‘I don’t think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘I’m not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘I don’t want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch ‘Cheers’ because it’s very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, ‘This is the great show of the universe?’ To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes.’ – Teri Garr

‘Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.’ – Bill Watterson

‘There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman’s paintings to Mozart’s symphonies and Einstein’s view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they’ll never come to you.’ – Yul Vazquez

‘Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It’s the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man’s external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.’ – Kary Mullis

‘When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.’ – George Smoot

‘If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?’ – Carl Sagan

‘I’m honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.’ – Ellen Ochoa

‘In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.’ – Alan Moore

‘There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.’ – Julian Barbour

‘My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.’ – David Mixner

‘I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.’ – Steven Wright

‘I’m not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.’ – Leonard Susskind

‘Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Being poor sucks… It’s hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you’re trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.’ – Antony Garrett Lisi

‘In ‘Cosmicomics,’ I came close to science fiction – I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.’ – Italo Calvino

‘For all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. Therefore, we need to take it seriously.’ – Mark Manson

‘I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ series isn’t just entertainment for devoted fans like me – it’s an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.’ – Camille Paglia

‘I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.’ – Yayoi Kusama

‘The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.’ – Michael Crichton

‘What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.’ – Robert Greene

‘Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.’ – Tom Noddy

‘It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.’ – James K. Polk

‘I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it’s in a different universe than what you’re doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn’t actually cool when you’re not, like, 10.’ – Joss Whedon

‘I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun’s rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe.’ – Dean Potter

‘The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘If I should have a daughter, instead of ‘Mom,’ she’s gonna call me ‘Point B,’ because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, ‘Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.” – Sarah Kay

‘We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Poppy’s world is a magical place, and it’s the most free part of the entire universe.’ – Poppy

‘A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.’ – Corita Kent

‘To be a Miss Universe is both an honor and responsibility.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.’ – Thomas Merton

‘We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.’ – Martin Sheen

‘Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.’ – Sam Kean

‘The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.’ – John Muir

‘It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.’ – Edgar Cayce

‘There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.’ – Rebecca West

‘I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.’ – Etel Adnan

‘Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don’t know.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.’ – Thomas Bangalter

‘There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they’re tiny or warped. But even if they’re invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.’ – Lisa Randall

‘Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth – the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.’ – Paul Davies

‘I think I think we are all so unique in our own way, and I think we are all just these tiny, little cogs in this incredibly massive, wonderful universe.’ – Nicholas Galitzine

‘Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.’ – Norman Geisler

‘When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.’ – Robert Lanza

‘There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.’ – Saul Perlmutter

‘You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.’ – Bernard Berenson

‘Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it’s been expanding since its creation, and it’s connected to everything.’ – Jon Batiste

‘On ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ those kids were supposed to be outsider kids – you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there’s no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn’t the prom queen, hottest girl in school.’ – Rob Thomas

‘I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I’ve done it all and there’s a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.’ – Cat Stevens

‘I’ve always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn’t have a superpower – he has no special ability. He’s just a regular person, a regular human.’ – David Mazouz

‘There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.’ – Walt Whitman

‘The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.’ – Alan Watts

‘The universe is so enormous, and we have no idea what’s on the other side of the galaxy. It’s a lovely thing to be able to tap into. I’m definitely not opposed to any supernatural ideas, but I’ve never encountered any. I believe in spirits, but I’ve never seen a ghost. And I believe in Heaven and Hell.’ – Rose Leslie

‘Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.’ – James Jeans

‘Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.’ – Henri Poincare

‘You don’t need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head – the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we’re not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.’ – George Saunders

‘God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity – that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.’ – Jacques Monod

‘Being a part of ‘Sex and the City’ was like being at the center of the universe – it was extraordinary.’ – James Remar

‘Changes… can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it – it will reassemble in the same form.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘You don’t have to call it God or Jesus. That’s religious humbug to a lot of people, but you’ve gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.’ – Jack LaLanne

‘Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.’ – Werner Herzog

‘The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that’s not as fun as saying, ‘You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.’ And next time my fans eat pizza, they’re thinking of Venus!’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The Qur’an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.’ – Said Nursi

‘The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘I’m open to reading almost anything – fiction, nonfiction – as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.’ – Amy Tan

‘It’s a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.’ – Janelle Monae

‘We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That’s not a hard thing to know. But that’s not what’s emphasized.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘Everyone has bad days, and when you’re having a bad day, you think, ‘Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.’ And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.’ – Judith Viorst

‘On Wall Street he and a few others – how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that… Masters of the Universe.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.’ – Carl Sagan

‘In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘One thing that you kind of know about the ‘Star Wars’ universe, but that you learn in a much more impactful way as you get into it, is that living in that universe is hard.’ – Alden Ehrenreich

‘It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there’ve been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.’ – Neil Turok

‘It takes a planet to explore the universe, and we invite the global community to be part of Starlab’s success.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life’s consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?’ – Lucy Larcom

‘When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.’ – Ernest Holmes

‘If we live in an infinite universe, it would be almost ignorant to think that aliens don’t exist.’ – Calum Hood

‘Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don’t know how I would make that make sense in the universe.’ – Penn Jillette

‘One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.’ – Brian Greene

‘For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.’ – Billy Porter

‘It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Don’t believe the hype; don’t believe what it tells you on your driver’s license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.’ – RuPaul

‘The scientific content of Genesis 1-11 holds special significance for me because it revolutionized my thinking and, thus, changed my life’s direction. Until I reached my late teens, my singular passion was science, astronomy in particular. My life’s purpose was to learn more about the universe; nothing beyond that really interested me.’ – Hugh Ross

‘I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.’ – Alexander Calder

‘We’re born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don’t have a curiosity don’t have it because it’s gotten beaten out of them in some way.’ – Kip Thorne

‘Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe.’ – Paul Stamets

‘There’s an element to songwriting that I can’t explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can’t explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It’s like the origin of the universe.’ – Nick Cave

‘I mean I think that when you’ve got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?’ – Richard Dawkins

‘There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.’ – Henry Fielding

‘I would enjoy sitting in a rocker… listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘In ‘Gravity,’ nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.’ – John C. Mather

‘I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things – then she should not give the guy a chance as she’s wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives.’ – Patti Stanger

‘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.’ – Louis Pasteur

‘Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.’ – Jami Gertz

‘The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.’ – Philip Warren Anderson

‘Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.’ – Robert Nozick

‘I learned from many people. I became a better wrestler thanks to my matches with Edge, with Christian, with Rey Mysterio, with John Cena – who, even though you, the fans, want to criticize him, John Cena is one of the best wrestlers of the universe.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘You’ve got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘I believe there’s other forms of intelligence in the universe. I’ve seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we’re the most intelligent things in the universe… well, that’s just depressing.’ – Rekha Sharma

‘The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.’ – Don Herold

‘Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe – maybe it’s countless other universes.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn’t.’ – Courtney A. Kemp

‘We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird’s-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘As soon as the idea of the Big Bang was proposed in the 1920s, astronomers set about trying to work out when the bang happened. Initial estimates were, not surprisingly, wildly inaccurate, but by the 1980s it was known that the universe was 15 billion years old, give or take 5 billion years.’ – Simon Singh

‘I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that’s up to the WWE Universe. That’s up to the fans. But there is a guy on ‘SmackDown’ that I have yet to wrestle yet that’s certainly gonna happen at some point, and that’s Randy Orton.’ – A.J. Styles

‘I’ve had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I’m quite willing to debate people who don’t think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?’ – Ben Carson

‘No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.’ – Martin Van Buren

‘Motherhood may be a ‘killer’ when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby’s lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able – and often required – to bring home the family bacon.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘There’s stuff going on in the world right now, which you can’t imagine why is this happening; it’s crazy. I don’t know what the answer is, but if you didn’t have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we’d all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone’s time.’ – Chris Martin

‘In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.’ – Alan Watts

‘Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama’s hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.’ – Yayoi Kusama

‘If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.’ – William Inge

‘I’m an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.’ – Priyamvada Natarajan

‘When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe – but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.’ – Logic

‘The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.’ – Robert Anton Wilson

‘We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Like, you think, ‘Oh, it’s ‘Star Wars,’ everybody has a spaceship’ – but no, actually, in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, having a ship is like having a yacht.’ – Alden Ehrenreich

‘By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.’ – Carl Sagan

‘You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.’ – Robert J. Sawyer

‘This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one’s mother tongue.’ – Tahar Ben Jelloun

‘Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.’ – Agnes de Mille

‘Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!’ – William James

‘One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.’ – Alan Guth

‘I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.’ – Hannes Alfven

‘It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.’ – Annie Besant

‘For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.’ – Elif Safak

‘It’s hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we’re woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.’ – Robert Lanza

‘I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘It’s a difficult business, finding out what’s true about the world, the universe.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The fact that one can lose one’s sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one’s consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.’ – Sam Harris

‘I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein’s theory of relativity – so far, it’s holding up well. They may even one day act as navigational beacons for spacecraft. I’ll never tire of them; they really are the most extraordinary objects.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘Being called ‘The Heartbreak Kid’, ‘Mr. Wrestlemania,’ and all those other names doesn’t even begin to compare to what it feels like to know that the Almighty God who created the universe calls me His child.’ – Shawn Michaels

‘For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.’ – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘I mean, I’m married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going.’ – Amy Wax

‘A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I believe that if you put an energy out into the universe, you’ll receive it back.’ – Cameron Boyce

‘The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘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

‘The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So we’re gonna see the snapshot of when stars started. When galaxies started. The very first moments of the universe. And my bet? There’s gonna be some big surprises.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘The Google Quad Campus looks way too nice to sit on top of an active Superfund site: There are matching bikes, a pool with primary-colored umbrellas, and a contained universe that looks more like a college or a park than a satellite campus of one of the biggest companies in the world.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘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

‘If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there’s other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.’ – David Bowie

‘One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘I felt calm when I was called first runner-up because I felt it was fate. But when they announced that I was Miss Universe, I had mixed emotions. I was happy because I really wanted to win but felt sad for Miss Colombia.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘It’s worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn’t contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science – that it’s not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘I’ve been in that angst of loneliness, where you’re really alone in the universe, except for the dog.’ – William Shatner

‘The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your science, whether it’s right or wrong, and the public are in control of your art – if they’re going to buy it, if you’re going to make a living that way.’ – Harry Kroto

‘The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.’ – Mae Jemison

‘I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.’ – John C. Mather

‘If Mr. Einstein doesn’t like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.’ – Robert Benchley

‘There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.’ – John D. Barrow

‘There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.’ – Rebecca West

‘You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.’ – Sol Wachtler

‘The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.’ – Laurence Olivier

‘The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.’ – Hal Borland

‘There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don’t know what it’s a plan for.’ – Fred Hoyle

‘Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.’ – Scott Adams

‘We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.’ – George W. Bush

‘Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.’ – Hal Borland

‘Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.’ – Alexander Herzen

‘Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.’ – Claude Levi-Strauss

‘Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.’ – Norman Cousins

‘In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.’ – Henry Miller

‘It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.’ – Gerard De Nerval

‘The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.’ – Charles W. Chesnutt

‘Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.’ – Alice Walker

‘Here we are, we’re alone in the universe, there’s no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We’ve only got ourselves. Somehow, we’ve just got to make a go of it. We’ve only ourselves.’ – John Osborne

‘We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.’ – Octavio Paz

‘The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.’ – Steven Weinberg

‘Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.’ – Barry Lopez

‘I’m like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I’ve taken all of that off.’ – Sean Astin

‘I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble’s power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.’ – Jeff Goldblum

‘I am very excited to be supporting one of the world’s most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.’ – Paul Allen

‘There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.’ – Hannes Alfven

‘The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.’ – William Gibson

‘I am very interested in the Universe – I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.’ – Peter Cook

‘You can’t think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I’ve been acting for 16 years. I’ve done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there’s maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.’ – Robert Patrick

‘The entire universe is working against me. I can’t believe the entire universe could be that foolish!’ – Craig Bruce

‘I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.’ – Craig Bruce

‘I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly – or ever – gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.’ – Brian Greene

‘How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?’ – Brian Greene

‘We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?’ – Brian Greene

‘A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.’ – Brian Greene

‘It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars… knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.’ – Richard Baker

‘I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.’ – Loretta Young

‘Music is part of God’s universe.’ – Cat Stevens

‘It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.’ – Georg Hermes

‘Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices – and sees you as a being of equal creative power.’ – Joy Page

‘It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?’ – Yahoo Serious

‘It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.’ – Orlando Gibbons

‘The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.’ – Kenneth L. Pike

‘I talk to the universe all the time.’ – Ted Lange

‘God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.’ – Walter Lang

‘When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.’ – Gordon Gee

‘The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.’ – Brad Dourif

‘I always want to write erotic music… Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense – about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe… about life.’ – Toru Takemitsu

‘As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.’ – Sue Kelly

‘One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an ‘old’ young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.’ – Raymond E. Feist

‘Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.’ – Lindsay Wagner

‘Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.’ – Wellington Mara

‘And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.’ – Joan D. Vinge

‘One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans… was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.’ – Kevin J. Anderson

‘The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.’ – Francis William Aston

‘The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.’ – Daniel Keys Moran

‘That’s what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it’s going to come back together.’ – Duane G. Carey

‘The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.’ – Albert Claude

‘No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.’ – Albert Claude

‘One of the great things about the universe is that it’s fair.’ – Alan Bean

‘But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.’ – Rick Moody

‘We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can’t do better than including everything in the universe that’s potentially available.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘One of the things that I’ve been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?’ – Seth Lloyd

‘I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it’s capable of performing universal computation, but it’s plausible that it is.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it’s complex.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.’ – Seth Lloyd

‘When you’re looking that far out, you’re giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn’t need translation. It’s like poetry, it touches you.’ – Story Musgrave

‘I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.’ – Story Musgrave

‘I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.’ – Anthony Braxton

‘Once you’ve invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story’s grown to around a half-million words and can’t be written as anything less than a trilogy.’ – Lynn Abbey

‘It’s been the most creatively liberating thing I’ve ever done and so I’m bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you’ll be hearing about soon.’ – Mark Millar

‘One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.’ – John Astin

‘I can’t speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn’t yet been explored.’ – Walter Jon Williams

‘But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.’ – Frederick Pollock

‘At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.’ – John M. Ford

‘You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that.’ – Kathryn Bigelow

‘It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.’ – Michael Behe

‘This fact immediately suggested a singular event – that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event – the creation, the beginning of the universe.’ – Michael Behe

‘Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.’ – Tony Snow

‘Working in Isaac’s universe was more of a treat than a challenge.’ – Greg Bear

‘My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It’ll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.’ – Fay Wray

‘Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.’ – James Martineau

‘I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he’s no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.’ – John Shelby Spong

‘Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.’ – Malcolm Wilson

‘It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.’ – Richard Morris

‘After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.’ – Terry Brooks

‘In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.’ – James Henry Breasted

‘I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.’ – Clyde Tombaugh

‘A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.’ – Bruce Sterling

‘In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.’ – Claude Nicollier

‘The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘The adults don’t know what’s happening on the kids’ universe and the kids don’t know what’s happening on the adults’ universe.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It’s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.’ – Dwight Yoakam

‘It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.’ – Harold Brodkey

‘We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.’ – John Buchanan Robinson

‘In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.’ – Julius Erving

‘The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.’ – Orson Pratt

‘Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.’ – George Gaylord Simpson

‘Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.’ – George Gaylord Simpson

‘Arthur Young’s Reflexive Universe – fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.’ – James Merrill

‘I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.’ – Laurence Housman

‘If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.’ – Murray Gell-Mann

‘So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.’ – Murray Gell-Mann

‘What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.’ – Murray Gell-Mann

‘With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.’ – William Irwin Thompson

‘Drugs shouldn’t be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.’ – Ray Manzarek

‘I soon became convinced… that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.’ – Fritz Zwicky

‘The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.’ – John Woolman

‘I’m very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we’re all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘It’s just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.’ – Kathleen Quinlan

‘When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.’ – Clifford D. Simak

‘Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.’ – Clifford D. Simak

‘And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past – except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.’ – Clifford D. Simak

‘And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.’ – Fred Saberhagen

‘Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.’ – John Polkinghorne

‘Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.’ – Bernie Worrell

‘For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.’ – John Grierson

‘After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.’ – John Polkinghorne

‘Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.’ – John Polkinghorne

‘Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world’s end.’ – Ella Maillart

‘But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.’ – Haldan Keffer Hartline

‘My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author’s product. The real universe ain’t that way, and neither are my fictive ones.’ – David Brin

‘Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.’ – Gil Gerard

‘I’m off to save the universe again. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it, and I’m glad it’s me.’ – Lexa Doig

‘I’ve been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I’ve been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.’ – Joseph Jarman

‘The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.’ – Dennis Weaver

‘We’re probably a couple of freaks who’ve created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that’s the only place where we can survive.’ – Stephen Malkmus

‘Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won’t let you play with some really wild ideas that aren’t possible, but are fun to speculate about.’ – Stanley Schmidt

‘Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don’t want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.’ – Garth Ennis

‘A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.’ – Fredric Jameson

‘As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.’ – Jai Rodriguez

‘The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn’t have a personal point of view, it’s impossible to be a creator.’ – Manuel Puig

‘I don’t think humor is forced upon my universe; it’s a part of it.’ – Manuel Puig

‘I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.’ – Pat Buckley

‘So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.’ – Michael Polanyi

‘I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.’ – Alicia Machado

‘A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.’ – Ann Druyan

‘This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can’t ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.’ – Ann Druyan

‘For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.’ – Morarji Desai

‘Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.’ – Harry Dean Stanton

‘In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.’ – Jessi Colter

‘The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl’s been expanding along with the universe.’ – Larry Wall

‘At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space – abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.’ – Benjamin Whorf

‘The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.’ – Orson Scott Card

‘In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.’ – John Millington Synge

‘You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you’d have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.’ – Karel Capek

‘Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.’ – Rudolf Arnheim

‘In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.’ – Kenneth Scott Latourette

‘The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.’ – Kenneth Scott Latourette

‘The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.’ – Michael Novak

‘In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.’ – Al Goldstein

‘My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.’ – Celine Dion

‘If there is anything in the universe that can’t stand discussion, let it crack.’ – Wendell Phillips

‘People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.’ – James Jeans

‘Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.’ – Theodore Dreiser

‘There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.’ – Len Wein

‘We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.’ – Paul Eldridge

‘A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.’ – Judith Wright

‘Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.’ – George Wald

‘Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It’s endless. I’m sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.’ – Nathalie Sarraute

‘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.’ – John Joly

‘But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.’ – Lawrence Summers

‘Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man’s universe is the earth?’ – Stephen Vizinczey

‘Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.’ – Andre Malraux

‘I’m just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.’ – Cindy Sheehan

‘I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.’ – Lucas Grabeel

‘That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.’ – Adam Savage

‘You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.’ – Ben Affleck

‘The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don’t take them, the universe says to itself, ‘Oh I see, this person doesn’t like opportunities’ and stops giving them to you.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.’ – Juan Williams

‘I was very clear that I wanted to keep ‘Thor’ out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.’ – Bradley Chicho

‘Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.’ – Bradley Chicho

‘For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.’ – Saul Perlmutter

‘We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways – and it could be that we’re not accounting for something that’s almost three-quarters of the entire universe.’ – Saul Perlmutter

‘It’s an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.’ – Saul Perlmutter

‘The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.’ – Saul Perlmutter

‘It seemed like my favourite kind of job – a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.’ – Saul Perlmutter

‘We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘When you’re in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you’re not dealing with show business, there’s still this sense that it’s the center of the universe. And I think that’s a really dangerous, limiting mindset.’ – Ed Helms

‘I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you’re in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you’re not dealing with show business, there’s still this sense that it’s the center of the universe.’ – Ed Helms

‘Maybe the universe will get tired of me.’ – Jorja Fox

‘We don’t know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It’s something the human mind can’t really grasp. It’s statistically impossible that there’s not life on other planets.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘I’ve always really been into science, and in the last five years I’ve gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.’ – Adam Pascal

‘My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts… even when bad things happen.’ – John Wozniak

‘If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you’ve got will be irrelevant.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it’s the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that’s why I’m attracted to it.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.’ – Debra Winger

‘A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it’s the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.’ – David E. Kelley

‘When I was a kid, if you didn’t speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn’t pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.’ – Roddy Doyle

‘Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.’ – James Buchan

‘There’s a bigger universe at hand.’ – Marc Webb

‘I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

‘My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‘Doctor Who.’ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we’ll be living on other planets.’ – Neil Young

‘Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘I think wine is such a big universe that it’s kind of like food – it’s intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.’ – Padma Lakshmi

‘You listen to Bob Dylan and you can’t help but think of the 60s, it’s very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn’t come from them it comes from the universe and it’s to be shared. At best, we’re skilled presenters, and I say that at best.’ – Serj Tankian

‘I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.’ – Roberto Unger

‘We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.’ – Jon Meacham

‘My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.’ – John Rowland

‘I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.’ – K. D. Lang

‘Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.’ – Ken MacLeod

‘You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.’ – Camille Paglia

‘The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master.’ – Dave Matthews

‘I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.’ – Joan Didion

‘When you tour with a band, you’re just out there, and it’s just you guys. That’s your little universe. If you do a play, it’s the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.’ – Katey Sagal

‘It’s not going to be just humans colonizing space, it’s going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘I got so lucky on my ‘Red Widow’ cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It’s a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don’t know how that happened.’ – Melissa Rosenberg

‘If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.’ – Kary Mullis

‘If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.’ – Martin Scorsese

‘There’s a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you’re actually giving something to yourself, too. You’re singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.’ – Jason Mraz

‘I’m trying to convey to my audience that you really can’t judge a book by its cover, and there’s more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.’ – Adam Lambert

‘We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.’ – Rolf-Dieter Heuer

‘I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.’ – Joseph Murray

‘Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.’ – Jane Siberry

‘I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn’t been exposed to.’ – Jane Siberry

‘Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don’t see them on the covers of magazines. I’d heard ‘Silver Machine’ but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called ‘Master Of The Universe’ and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.’ – Jarvis Cocker

‘I mean, I didn’t ever watch ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and think, ‘Those people are actors.’ I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.’ – Jennifer Garner

‘To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe… it just doesn’t happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.’ – Emily Mortimer

‘Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.’ – Emily Mortimer

‘I’m Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It’s like construction, and then, yes, you hope you’re talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer’s work you’ve done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it’s all caught on film or onstage.’ – Ellen Barkin

‘Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.’ – Emir Kusturica

‘It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn’t that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that’s actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.’ – George Saunders

‘I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.’ – Antonio Banderas

‘I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.’ – Teresa Palmer

‘The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.’ – Steve Coogan

‘In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.’ – Gene Ween

‘There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child’s universe.’ – Carre Otis

‘I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn’t conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.’ – Chad Kroeger

‘Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.’ – Virchand Gandhi

‘Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.’ – Yuri Milner

‘Gregory Hines was the most talented man I’ve ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.’ – Wendell Pierce

‘Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like… you sort of summon them and it’s like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It’s like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.’ – Ryan Adams

‘The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that’s very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.’ – Ben Carson

‘When a man gets cheated on, I’m like, ‘Meh, he’ll find somebody else.’ When a woman gets cheated on, that’s a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect – you had a great love and the universe took her.’ – Patti Stanger

‘You kind of create your own moral universe. It’s like, well, I like myself. If other people don’t like me, then whatever. I’m out of here.’ – Jessica Cutler

‘I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it’s all chaos. I call it ‘the dark fear.’ At any moment, the dark fear could come in.’ – St. Vincent

‘I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.’ – Laura Marling

‘Adults sometimes think children don’t think. That’s what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.’ – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah

‘Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.’ – Henning Mankell

‘You can’t visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That’s the art of storytelling.’ – Jo Nesbo

‘Musicals don’t get enough credit for being so surreal. It’s like an alternate universe.’ – Ezra Koenig

‘If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.’ – Paul Davies

‘My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.’ – Paul Davies

‘Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.’ – Paul Davies

‘Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply ‘given,’ elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.’ – Paul Davies

‘I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he’s charming. I’ve been very lucky. Most of the directors I’ve worked with are charming. But Joe’s a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.’ – Toby Jones

‘We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.’ – Bob Brown

‘Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there’s a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of ‘World of Warcraft’ may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath.’ – Ray William Johnson

‘I’m attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I’m alive, I’ll still be its interpreter.’ – Roy Harper

‘I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don’t remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, ‘Wow, I guess that wasn’t meant to be.’ It doesn’t sit with me.’ – Peter Farrelly

‘Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between ‘Master of the Universe’ financiers and pretty much everyone else.’ – Steven Rattner

‘It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘I’m not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It’s very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn’t always work that way.’ – Denise Mina

‘For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what’s known as the ‘xiao huangdi’ – or little emperor – phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that’s exactly how they’ve been treated.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘I’ve found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.’ – Michael Stuhlbarg

‘When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It’s kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.’ – Florence Welch

‘No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can’t recognize that the world has changed or should change.’ – Frank Rich

‘I don’t know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.’ – Rufus Sewell

‘I’m open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.’ – Jenna Dewan

‘I live in a universe in which blame doesn’t exist. I don’t believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.’ – Concha Buika

‘New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call ‘a center’ or ‘the center of the universe,’ has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.’ – Junot Diaz

‘For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.’ – Junot Diaz

‘What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you’re using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.’ – Frank Tipler

‘I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.’ – Robert Winston

‘However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a ‘god’ shaped hole at the centre of our universe.’ – Robert Winston

‘The first thing I became interested in in terms of ‘Brain Storm’ was neuroscience, and that is like saying you’re interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.’ – Richard Dooling

‘Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator’s plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.’ – Kenneth R. Miller

‘I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they’ve set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.’ – Tamara Tunie

‘I’ve been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.’ – Steven Weber

‘The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.’ – Colum McCann

‘Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.’ – Alan Lightman

‘I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives… when we see someone and immediately imagine a whole universe around them. A relationship, a future, and all based on just a second which might not even have been in their company. It’s amazing how quickly the human mind can come up with this stuff.’ – Danny Wallace

‘Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.’ – Dorothy Allison

‘Stephen Jones’ hats are what we used to call ‘creations’; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They’re worn in a parallel universe.’ – Peter York

‘In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops – fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.’ – Tom Shales

‘Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.’ – Tom Shales

‘I believe God controls the universe. I don’t believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.’ – Richard Mourdock

‘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.’ – Janet Fitch

‘Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can’t see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there’s no sharing in that.’ – John Lydon

‘I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe.’ – Katherine Paterson