Universe Quotes

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

~ Roger Penrose

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

~ Alan Watts

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

~ James Prescott Joule

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

~ Sally Ride

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

~ Rob Mcclure

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

~ Alan Moore

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

~ William Gibson

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

~ Laura Marling

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

~ K. D. Lang

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

~ James A. Baldwin

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

~ Anaïs Nin

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

~ Richard Morris

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

~ Edward M. Lerner

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

~ Bill Moyers

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

~ John Mcdonald

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

~ Martin Rees

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

~ Emir Kusturica

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

~ Ernest Holmes

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

~ Richard Dawkins

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.

~ Frans De Waal

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

~ Gary Hamel

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

~ Ray Comfort

People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.

~ Shawn Michaels

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

~ Richard H. Baker

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

~ Gabriela Isler

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

~ Dave Barry

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

~ William Blake

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

~ H. L. Mencken

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

~ Ray Bradbury

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

~ George William Russell

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

~ Steven Wright

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

~ Bradley Chicho

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

~ Alan Watts

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

~ Stephen Hawking

If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'

~ Sarah Kay

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

~ Karel Čapek