universe quotes

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. ”

— Sai Baba

“We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself. ”

— Jim Carrey

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”

— George Carlin

“Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!”

— William James

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

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

— Anais Nin

“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.”

— Henry Miller

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

— John Muir

“My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.”

— Michelle Obama

“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.”

— Thomas Paine

“A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.”

— Wayne Dyer

“A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.”

— Richard Dawkins

“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

“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.”

— Richard Dawkins

“The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?”

— Richard Dawkins