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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
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"That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel."

"When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!"

"This universe is alive. Every molecule is alive, but all of them have different levels of consciousness."

"The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier " as wide as it is deep. Stars shine coldly in the unimaginable blackness. Out of the darkness, a tiny speck caught the distant light of stars " a tiny gray speck that, as it moved, seemed to grow larger, catching the light just so until it revealed itself to be a ship."

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."


"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."


"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."


"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."


"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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