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Universe Quotes


"The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence."


"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."


"Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he realized that the galaxy itself was part of a mighty orchestra, and each star and planet within the galaxy added its own instrument to the music of the spheres. As long as the ancient harmonies were sung, the universe would not entirely lose its joy."


"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."


"I am my own Universe, I my own Professor."


"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."


"It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe."


"The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!"


"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals."


"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."


"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."


"The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards."


"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."


"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"


"The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody."


"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."


"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."


"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."


"Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex."


"I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe."


"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."


"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."


"The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it."


"Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know."


"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."


"You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen."


"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."


"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."


"The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."


"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."


"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe."


"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."


"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?"


"The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience."



"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."


"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."


"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."


"Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation."


"The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair."


"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
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