Quotes About Universe

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not? The

For those who find it remarkable that we live in a universe of Something, just wait. Nothingness is heading on a collision course right toward us.

Why did I speak of intellectual courage? Because the human mind, including my own, rebels emotionally against the idea that something as complex as life, and the rest of the expanding universe, could have 'just happened'. It takes intellectual courage to kick yourself out of your emotional incredulity and persuade yourself that there is no other rational choice.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the the universe

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

The universe wasn't ideal, but it was hardly a prison. After all, you had to exist somewhere; it might as well be here.

Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?" Jorrus said, "Vita ex pulvis." "We are made from the dust of dead stars.

We are the universe watching itself, watching and learning.

The universe was so beautiful it hurt. So very, very beautiful. And yet, at the same time, so full of ugliness. Some born of the inexorable demands of entropy; some born of the cruelty that seemed innate to all sentient beings. And none of it made any sense. It was all glorious, horrible nonsense, fit to inspire both despair and numinosity.

We are the mind of the universe itself. We and the Jellies and all self-aware beings. We are the universe watching itself, watching and learning.

For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

Don't you see, Prisoner?" said Jorrus. "We are the mind of the universe itself. We and the Jellies and all self-aware beings. We are the universe watching itself, watching and learning.

The universe wasn't ideal, but it was hardly a prison. After all, you had to exist somewhere, it might as well be here.

The happiness of two beings might be a small thing when compared with the immensity of the universe, but what, ultimately, was more important? Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn-that was the closest any person might come to heaven.

The oldest fears were the most powerful. If there were gods, he thought for sure that the first and greatest—and evilest—would be the god of darkness. Light required effort. Light was a struggle. But the dark was easy, and it had existed before all else and would be there to envelop the universe in its smothering cloak when the last dim stars guttered out at the end of time.

Because they believe it contains deep truths about life, the universe, and everything.

By our actions we increase entropy of the Universe. By our entropy, we seek salvation from the coming dark.

It was a strange universe. The more she learned, the stranger it seemed, and she doubted she would ever find the answers to all her questions.

En una ocasión me preguntaste qué veía yo entre las estrellas. Te respondí que veía preguntas. Pero ahora te veo a ti. Nos veo a nosotros.

Take comfort, then, that whatever you choose in life has importance beyond yourself. Importance, even, on a cosmic scale.

Qué probabilidades había de que los dos se hubieran encontrado dentro de aquella inmensa galaxia?

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

163. Prisoners We are all prisoners. But we sit on the keys. Finitude is our cell. The universe is our prison. Our jail keeper is the Act of Being. The keys to liberation are clenched tightly in the fists of our own egos.