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Quotes About Universe

in a universe where both information and misinformation are constantly suspect, reviewed and drifing as they must be (constantly) by and between the two, a moment when either information or misinformation turns out to be harmless must bloom, when surrounded by the workings of desire and terror, into the offered sign of all about it, making and marking all about it innocent by contamination.
~ Samuel R. Delany
The particular verbal freedom of SF, coupled with the corrective process that allows the whole range of the physically explainable universe, can produce the most violent leaps of imagery. For not only does it throw us worlds away, it specifies how we got there.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I will probably be caught again, because that's what happens to criminals in this universe. And maybe I will escape once more." He shrugged. "Maybe I will not be caught again, though." He looked at her, surprised not at her but at something in himself. "I was no I before, but now there is a reason to stay free. I will not be caught again. There is a reason." "What is it, Butcher?" "Because I am," he said softly, "and you are.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Why? Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought, Mocky. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language. The form of this language is … amazing." "What amazes you?" "Mocky, when you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe." He nodded. "And as I see into this language, I begin to see … too much." "It sounds very poetical.
~ Samuel R. Delany
If only because there is so much to know in our human universe, the working assumption you can go on is: You may assume, about absolutely any fact (how many transuranic elements are there? why does cold water remove human blood stains faster than hot?) that nine hundred and ninety-nine people out of a thousand do NOT know it- which goes for the working assumption too.
~ Samuel R. Delany
That saints will aid if men will call:For the blue sky bends over all!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are all blessed in more ways than we realize. The universe is a very generous place. We must learn to give back to create the proper balance. to give and to see the smile upon another being's face, that's one of the richest feelings one can experience. Go get rich.
~ Sana Dabbas
In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman's body.
~ Sandra K. MorningStar
Imagine a great net spread across the universe. Each juncture is a "being," and if we imagine that consciousness as a drop of dew, we can see that in each shining drop resides the reflection of every other drop on the net.
~ Sandy Boucher
You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.
~ Sara Shepard
The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.
~ Sara Sheridan
If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense.
~ Sara Sheridan
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically. —MADELEINE L'ENGLE It's
~ Sarah Arthur
Glaring at the unicorn silhouette, she decided she hated coincidences. Or cosmic signs. Whichever it was. She felt as if the universe were laughing at her.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
For the first time in my existence, I tell the truth, and I am greeted with lack of belief. This is the universe laughing at me.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~ Joseph Joubert
The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.
~ Deepak Chopra
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.
~ Robert Jastrow
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.
~ Stephen Hawking
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
~ George Strait
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
~ H. G. Wells