Quotes About Universe

The atoms that comprise our bodies and that make all visible stars and galaxies, are mere trace-constituents of a universe whose large-scale structure is controlled by some quite different (and invisible) substance. We see, as it were, just the white foam on the wave-crests, not the massive waves themselves. We must envisage our cosmic habitat as a dark place, made mainly of quite unknown material.

We, and the visible universe around us, may exist only because of a difference in the ninth decimal place between the numbers of quarks and of antiquarks.

But it remains a fundamental challenge to understand the very beginning-this must await a 'final' theory, perhaps some variant of superstrings. Such a theory would signal the end of an intellectual quest that started with Newton, and continued through Maxwell, Einstein, and their successors. It would deepen our understanding of space, time, and the basic forces, as well as elucidating the ultra-early universe and the centres of black holes.

Anything could happen in a cosmos that was part math and part magic.

And I mean, if there is a God it's probably a good idea to believe in him. But if there isn't a God, then we're just an accident of nature, a virus, pond scum gone berserk, and it won't matter one way or another if I believe or not because who cares? And so if it doesn't matter, then I choose to believe. There's something mindful about it, about the universe having a heart, us being watched over, maybe life and everything meaning something.

There is a moment when the dead man, too, cancels further revision of the impure. Thus, the dead man is a postscript to closure. The dead man is also a form of circular reasoning, the resident tautologist in an oval universe that is robin's-egg-blue to future generations. Perhaps it's so not important that the dead man lives. After all, the dead man deserts the future.

Tantrics seek oneness with the universe through eating meat, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, dancing, and ritual sexual intercourse.

Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the universe never to disappear. -Mary Baker Eddy (SH 509:24)

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

No Universe can be INDEPENDENT of man and cannot be created outside the man as long as the man knows it!

For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the way through which he will defeat himself and defeat with it the entire universe which will become a mere appendix of his Sacred Self.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

The fact that the man is not alone, that he is solitary to the entire universe even through vanity it means a major thing, it means the true meaning of his existence, that of not being lonely, of being an entire Universe.

Precisely this vanity of vanities which is the mans dream, the Illusion of his Life is the one that finally gives the man the Self Freedom because of the fact that he can be compared to any star, to anything there is in this universe, eve to Universe itself, because they are all born and die, they will al be dust and afterwards Void and Being and other elements, they are all a great vanity, not just the Illusion of Life which man lives on this Earth.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

So that we can truly admire this wonderful painting we will have to know ourselves first of all, to accept our limits and understand that if we really want to have access to this wonderful painting of the existence of the world of the Logical Coefficient 2 we will have to look inside ourselves, to see first of all the unlimited Universe, to recognise the infinite from which we were conceived and that lies in each of us in order to be granted access to the infinite outside us.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.