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Quotes About Universe

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
~ James Taylor
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
~ zweig stefan v
The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.
~ Abraham Heschel
The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Told you, said Mick. Things comin' together. We set off lookin' for the Utz kids an' find a tree full o' everybody. That's magic, too. It's like a story. Same thing. The universe don't like plot. Story is magic's way o' telling the universe to sod off. That's good then, right? said Scott. After this episode with Emily, he was ready for some optimism. Magic wants us all to live happily ever after. Not necessarily, Mick answered. Magic likes a good tragedy, too.
~ Adam Rex
Until that moment, I'd been living in my own little universe of good-luck hell.
~ Aimee Bender
Genius is children it lives in far Centaurus and star clusters beyond cold Orion and sometimes visits earth when there is no one home
~ Al Purdy
The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray.
~ Alain de Botton
Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because is shows us things that we will -never- master. [...] Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxies and the 3 septillion stars in the universe. [...] majestically unaware of everything we are and consolingly unaffected by all that tears us apart.
~ Alain de Botton
There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain.
~ Alan Brennert
Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.
~ Alan Cohen
La muerte es la forma que tiene el universo de limpiar lo que ya ha cumplido con su propósito, para dejar vía libre al siguiente acto de propósito.
~ Alan Cohen
El novelista Ray Cummings dice que el tiempo es «lo que evita que todo suceda a la vez». Todo lo que ha existido alguna vez, sigue existiendo, existirá, y todo lo que podría existir, existe ahora. El
~ Alan Cohen
If you know you live in an abundant universe, you trust that you have enough time to do what you need to do. When we are in the consciousness of peace, time becomes elastic; it will expand or contract to accommodate our purpose.
~ Alan Cohen
That's not what's bothering you, is it? You're worried about what they might find. Or have we all misjudged you and you're really a high-minded seeker after knowledge, a true devotee of pushing back the frontiers of the known universe?' 'Hell, no.' Parker didn't seem the least offended by Ripley's casual sarcasm. 'I'm a true devotee of pushing back the frontiers of my bank account.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust." Still
~ Alan Dean Foster
Mankind must without a doubt be the most conceited race in the universe, for who else believes that God has nothing better to do than sit around all day and help him out of tight spots?" It
~ Alan Dean Foster
We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.
~ Alan Harrington
In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
~ Alan Lightman