Quotes About Universe

I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.

love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)

They did not vary their partners if their inclination were to stick to previous ones.Changing partners simply meant that a satisfactory choice had not as yet been arrived at by one or other of the pair, and by this time every couple had been suitably matched. It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

The cow and horse tracks in the road were full of water, the rain having been enough to charge them, but not enough to wash them away. Across these minute pools the reflected stars flitted in a quick transit as she passed; she would not have known they were shining overhead if she had not seen them there—the vastest things of the universe imaged in objects so mean.

Nella difettosa esecuzione del piano ben disposto dell'universo raramente l'invito provoca l'arrivo di chi si invoca; raramente si incontra l'uomo da amare, quando viene l'ora per l'amore. La natura non dice troppo spesso guarda alla povera creatura nel momento in cui il guardare potrebbe portare a una lieta conclusione, nè risponde qui alla carne che grida dove?; finché tutto questo nascondersi e cercarsi diventa un gioco penoso senza mordente.

Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us.

L'échiquier représente le monde, les pièces sont les phénomènes de l'univers, les règles du jeu sont ce qu'on appelle les lois de la nature, et le joueur de l'autre côté nous est caché.

You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels with the whole universe for not containing a sylph.

It was simply that the mechanical laws found themselves repeated and corroborated in nature.

the Communist universe: it gravitates towards stability and harmony and peace and order on the poles of an opportunism that is completely irresponsible and erratic. Its only law is, it will do whatever seems to be profitable to itself at the moment.

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel." "Awesome." "Maybe, but it's code's all it is.

Sometimes he'll chuckle at something, but rarely. Whenever somebody asks how come everybody's laughing at something and he isn't, Horst explains his belief that laughter is sacred, a momentary noodge from some power out in the universe, only cheapened and trivialized by laugh tracks. He has a low tolerance for unmotivated and mirthless laughter in general. For many people, especially in New York, laughing is a way of being loud without having to say anything.

Outside the sky is light with stars

So if you've always been a "giver," take some time for yourself in your life – to stop, be still, to allow the Universe to nourish you. We all deserve nourishment, even if we were taught those many years ago that we didn't. And if you give it permission, the Universe is happy to provide.

This runs a little contrary to the way we think affirmations should work, because when we're in a great mood, or getting what we want, we don't think about creating more of it. But this is exactly the time to create more of it – to expand that good feeling, to extend those good thoughts, to send that energy out into the Universe to create more of what you want.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound," Bach replied. "'In the Beginning was the Word,' you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe. John A. Wheeler

The opportunity for love is ever-present, and in every place; its manifestation relies only on free will, on our decision at any given moment to receive a gift from a loving universe.

deeper apprehension of reality and this critical mass becomes the determining factor in the further progression, the further evolution of humanity. In this way, human consciousness participates in or co-creates evolution. It would appear, in this metabiological evolution, that the universe has chosen us to be vehicles of further creation. In the great vision of Teilhard de Chardin, growth in the individual human consciousness is the arena of cosmic evolution.

To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.