Quotes About Universe

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

From a Thomistic point of view, Paley and Co. have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage; and while the Darwinians have been unquestionably thuggish and often dishonest in their critiques of the "Intelligent Design" movement, to the extent that ID proponents have followed Paley in trading in Aristotle for a basically mechanistic picture of the physical universe, they have been "asking for it.

That inverted Bowl we call The Sky,Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die.

The history of human endeavor has frequently [been] comprised of certain institutions which are based on two archetypes. There's a guy who comes along and, with a certain kind of messianic fortitude and charisma, conjures up a universe out of nothing, hot air, if you'll pardon the expression. He makes it happen. Usually, he never stays around to run it.

From that experience, I learned that Roddenberry's "box" forced us to be more creative and to tell stories in more interesting and different ways than we would have in any other typical universe, so I loved that box.

I now turn fully to face you, 0 God, the source of the universe and of my life, as I enter into silence.

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. —Charles Darwin

Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

An estimated hundred billion star systems make up the Milky Way galaxy, and astronomers believe that all are orbited by an average of at least one planet.

Earth relates to the Universe as the second segment of the left antenna of an aphid sitting on a flower petal in a garden in Teaneck, New Jersey, for a few hours this afternoon.

Once music is detached from function, once it becomes a repertory art, it explicitly strives to define itself, out of itself, to become "mathemat- ical"—that is to say, to begin from premises and proceed to conclusions by interpreting its own universe, finding its own laws. Systems of harmony and counterpoint become tools for elaborate musical explorations. A great deal of Western music is as much a manifestation of idealism as is mathematics.

Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun?Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?