Quotes About Universe

At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

Every second of every day we are entering into a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.

somewhere in the universe of my soul a fiery, life-giving star collapsed, and a very black hole began to form.

O Universo tinha tendência a mergulhar no caos e na entropia. Era um princípio de termodinâmica simples. Talvez também fosse o princípio de uma existência básica.

When you look up at the sky, on a clear night, and see thousands of stars and planets, realise that very little is happening on most of them. The important stuff is further away.

So anyway, the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation.

There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

If you really want to live a life hard enough, you don't have to worry. You will stay there as if you have always been there. Because in one universe you have always been there. The book will never be returned, so to speak. It becomes less of a loan and more of a gift. The moment you decide you want that life, really want it, then everything that exists in your head now, including this Midnight Library, will eventually be a memory so vague and intangible it will hardly be there at all.

she'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe

La théorie des mondes multiples de la physique quantique pose comme principe qu'il y a un nombre infini d'univers parallèles divergents. A chaque instant de votre vie, vous entrez dans un nouvel univers. A chaque décision que vous prenez.

There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And

But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theater of your mind for the main role.

I couldn't sleep. Of course I couldn't. I had a whole universe to worry about.

As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted, and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime. Ever since the ligament injury that thwarted his rugby career, he'd had a sincere conviction that the universe was against him. And Nora was, at least she felt, considered by him as part of that same universal plan.

You see, sometimes, a single child believing in magic - if they believe enough - is enough to restore order to the universe.

Seriously, if there was a needier species in the universe, I have yet to meet it.

Oh, what? You're too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that's logical

Though most of our problems are systemic, most of our public debates are referendums on personality. Not many people can be neutral on the subject of Trump, so we wave him at you all day long. Meanwhile, a vast universe of systemic issues is ignored. We've been steadily narrowing that field of view for decades, particularly in investigative reporting.

The soul dies like a star – by collapsing in on itself.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.

Know thyself; know your strengths and weaknesses; your relation to the universe; your potentialities; your spiritual heritage; your aims and purposes; take stock of thyself. —SOCRATES

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.