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Quotes About Universe

Geometry is the most complete science.
~ David Hilbert
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.
~ William John Macquorn Rankine
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
~ Steven Weinberg
In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.
~ Anatoly Berezovoy
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
~ e. e. cummings
One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
~ Lee Smolin
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
~ Stephen Hawking
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.
~ Howard Bloom
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.
~ Kedar Joshi
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
~ Christiaan Huygens
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
~ Mark Twain
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
~ Jules Verne
It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.
~ Metrodorus of Chios
The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
~ Stephen Hawking
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
~ Bill Nye
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
~ Isaac Newton
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.
~ Jim Al-Khalili
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.
~ Francois Jacob
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
~ Carl Sagan