Universe Quotes - page 3

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. (Amy Tan)
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. View quote
George Santayana
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. View quote
Woody Allen
Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe. View quote
Jill Bolte Taylor
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. View quote
Edith Wharton
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. View quote
Roger Zelazny
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. (Robert Anton Wilson)
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. View quote
James Jeans
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. View quote
Henry Fielding
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. View quote
Bill Watterson
If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward. View quote
Li Hongzhi
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. View quote
David Hume
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. View quote
John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. View quote
John Muir
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. View quote
Carl Sagan
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. (Carl Sagan)
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. View quote
Carl Sagan
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. View quote
Terry Pratchett