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Universe Quotes
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
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"I am my own Universe, I my own Professor."
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"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
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"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
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"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."
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"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
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"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals."
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"The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards."
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"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
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"Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know."
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"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."
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"You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen."
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"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?"
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"Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex."
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"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
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"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."
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"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
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"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."
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"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
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"Universe is nothing but the reflection of your thoughts and perceptions."
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"For millenia, scientists always try to measurethe size of this vast universe. One way to know that is first to find the smallest single thing thatconstructs this universe. When they get it, the real measurement of universe can be understood for sure."
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"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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"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."
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"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
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"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
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"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."
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"The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience."
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"The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."
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"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
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"It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe."
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"A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath."
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"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."
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