Universe Quotes

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.

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?

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

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

I talk to the universe all the time.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

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.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

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.

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.

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

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.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

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.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

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.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.