Quotes About Universe

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.

The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.

The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

The existence of matter and energy in the universe did not require the violation of energy conservation at the assumed creation. In fact, the data strongly support the hypothesis that no such miracle occurred. If we regard such a miracle as predicted by the creator hypothesis, then the prediction is not confirmed.

The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.

Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

L'univers et l'homme sont faits d'étoiles

He aquí la muerte, fin de un universo.

When I am in the vibration of prosperity and abundance I am cosmically connected to my world and the Universe.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

This whole universe is but a drop of His Beauty!

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.