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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to
admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who
deserves the respect and homage of men.
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a
part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a
kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is
a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be
to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty.
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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if
your car could go straight upwards.
Author: Fred Hoyle
Source: in the London "Observer"
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There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know
what it's a plan for.
Author: Fred Hoyle
Source: in the London "Observer"
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Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very
existence is made known.
Author: Roger Penrose
Source: The Emperor's New Mind (ch. 10)
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The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
Author: Roger Penrose
Source: The Emperor's New Mind (ch. 10)
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Author: Bill Watterson
Source: from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Author: Bill Watterson
Source: from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
Author: Louis Pasteur
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The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
Author: Indian Proverb
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In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Author: Douglas Adams
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
Author: David Bohm
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Author: Eden Phillpotts
Source: None
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Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
Author: Douglas Adams
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All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
Author: Carl Sagan
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The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Author: William J. Broad
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Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.
Author: Francis Crawford
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
Author: Edward P. Tryon
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The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
Author: Linda Goodman
Source: None
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Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.
Author: R.p.t. Coffin
Source: None
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Author: Aleister Crowley
Source: None
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
Author: Max Frisch
Source: None
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Author: Johann Von Goethe
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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
Author: John Glenn
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The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Author: Mark Russell
Source: None
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
Author: Arnold Toynbee
Source: None
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What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
Author: Rich Cook
Source: None
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Author: Fred Hoyle
Source: None
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Author: Brian Pickrell
Source: None
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: None
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If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
Author: Dr. Beverly Crusher
Source: None
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
Source: None
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: None
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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
Author: David Bohm
Source: None
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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.
Author: Neil Armstrong
Source: None
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Author: Christopher Morley
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Author: Stephen Hawking
Source: None
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No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
Author: Robert Schuller
Source: None
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
Author: Woody Allen
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Author: Neil Armstrong
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Author: Robert Schuller
Source: None
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Author: William Jennings Bryant
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