Universe Quotes

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

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.

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

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

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.