Quotes About Universe

According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. It is an explanation of something in nature; how, for instance, any and everything in the universe came into existence: men, animals, this or that tree or flower, the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, eruptions, earthquakes, all that is and all that happens. Thunder and lightning are caused when Zeus hurls his thunderbolt.

To the people who told these stories all the universe was alive with the same kind of life they knew in themselves.

With the coming forward of Greece, mankind became the center of the universe, the most important thing in it. This was a revolution in thought. Human beings had counted for little heretofore. In Greece man first realized what mankind was.

The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dust The universe, for fear it gain Its freedom from my cube of brain. Yet dust bears seeds that grow to grace Behind my crude-striped wooden face As I, a puppet tinsel-pink Leap on my springs, learn how to think— Till like the trembling golden stalk Of some long-petalled star, I walk Through the dark heavens, and the dew Falls on my eyes and sense thrills through.

As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?

Captain Future! Ezra's faded eyes were agleam with hero worship. The greatest feat of space pilotin' in history! No one else in the universe would even have tried it!

A hydroid colony no bigger than can be contained in one's cupped hands may be almost a whole universe in itself - a complete unit of life, with possibly dozens of units in one tide pool.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.