Quotes About Universe

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

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.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.