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Quotes About Universe

The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.
~ Steven Pinker
The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.
~ Steven Pinker
And anyone with a humanistic sensibility cares about you, not in the sense of feeling your pain—human empathy is too feeble to spread itself across billions of strangers—but in the sense of realizing that your existence is cosmically no less important than theirs, and that we all have a responsibility to use the laws of the universe to enhance the conditions in which we all can flourish.
~ Steven Pinker
Laplace's Demon, the hypothetical imp that knows the instantaneous positions and velocities of every particle in the universe, was said to be able to calculate the entire future or past by plugging these values into the equations that express the laws of mechanics and electromagnetism.
~ Steven Pinker
What about a more abstract sense of "spirituality"? If it consists in gratitude for one's existence, awe at the beauty and immensity of the universe, and humility before the frontiers of human understanding, then spirituality is indeed an experience that makes life worth living—and one that is lifted into higher dimensions by the revelations of science and philosophy.
~ Steven Pinker
A "spirituality" that sees cosmic meaning in the whims of fortune is not wise but foolish. The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.
~ Steven Pinker
Deep explanations of the universe, the planet, life, the brain? Unless they use magic, we don't want to believe them!
~ Steven Pinker
Door aan het licht te brengen dat de wetten die in het universum gelden geen doel hebben, dwingen wetenschappelijke krachten ons verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor ons eigen welzijn, onze soort en onze planeet.
~ Steven Pinker
Why should the laws of nature have allowed exactly one physically possible way of satisfying a human desire, no more and no less?
~ Steven Pinker
Love is the face and body of the Universe.
~ Barbara Brennan
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up, so much that I don't care if my soul burns to ashes.
~ Youngjae
The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.
~ Paulo Coelho
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.
~ Alan Cohen
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
~ Lily Tomlin
The law of gratitude is universal. It is a natural function of the soul. All things upon this earth or in the universe operate and respond to love and praise.
~ Robert Scheid
Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.
~ Thaddeus Golas
Love is the mystery of water and a star.
~ Pablo Neruda
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
~ Alan Cohen
So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
~ Dante Alighieri
Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.
~ Richard Holloway
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
~ Jeff Mangum
In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.
~ John Robinson
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
~ Brooks Atkinson