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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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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?"


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


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



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


"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."


"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."


"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."


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


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


"I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it."


"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."


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


"If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack."
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