Quotes About Universe

And if words existed before matter of any kind, before suns and worlds and seas and human beings and fortune-tellers…well, then an alphabet must have existed even earlier, so that words could be formed. Therefore letters are more fundamental and powerful than anything else a diviner could use to force the secrets of the universe into view.

As the universe relentlessly expanded, the stars moved ever farther from Earth, until in a distant time after the end of the human era, maybe the night sky would no longer be richly diamonded, but would offer blackness relieved solely by the moon that reflected the light of the only star that would ever matter, the sun in its

Although Panthea's claim that our adversaries were older than the universe sounded like lunacy

Planck minimums of space and time all the way to the gravitational fine-structure constant.

Hartle-Hawking "no boundary" model for the Big Bang

All matter, when seen at its root, arises out of a base web that has all the characteristics of thought waves.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are.

God imagines the world, and the world becomes." Romanovich said, "Well, we know that matter can be transformed to energy, as burning oil produces heat and light—" "As

If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a supporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter three or in chapter ten, or in chapter thirty-five. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

But how do you know that the whole world hasn't its meninges, or that there isn't a big or little spider living in some corner of space with threads extending everywhere?

He didn't know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.

Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.

To be an atheist is to believe the universe came about by itself, life came from non-life by itself, and consciousness came about by itself.

Any atheist who believes good and evil really exist, or life has a purpose beyond one he or she has made up, or that free will exists, or, for that matter, that science alone will explain how the universe came about, or how life arose from non-life, or how intelligence arose from non-intelligence, has suspended reason in favor of faith.

Evening precedes morning for the simple and even obvious reason that darkness preceded light. Prior to the universe, all was dark. Light needed to be created, not darkness.

There is a huge new frontier awaiting our exploration, and it is not the macrocosm of the universe but the microcosm of the mind.

God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.

La Palabra y el Espíritu de Dios siempre van juntos. La Palabra y el Espíritu de Dios dieron vida al universo, y siguen trabajando juntos para mantenerlo.

Keeping one's patience is really a question of remembering one's place in the universe.

The universe had shifted, with a small, decisive click; he could still hear its echo in his bones.

women giving birth seemed very often to lose any sense of fear or misgiving...exhibiting an absorption that amounted to indifference-simply because they had no attention to spare for anything beyond the universe bounded by their bellies.

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.