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Can there be a completely different set of laws of physics in a different universe, or do the laws of physics as we understand them hold true in all possible universes? If the answer is that a different set of laws can operate in a different universe system, this would suggest (from a Buddhist perspective) that even the laws of physics are entangled with the karma of the sentient beings that will arise in that universe.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Life is a test from universe, if you are not willing to take the test, you won't give or get testimonials about your life".
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
The universe is soo huge, it would be a pity if we were alone
— Maybe Carl Sagan otherwise me myself
...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.
— Kathryn Davis, Duplex
We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought
— Sushil Singh
We are Not Our thought , return to being in You and enjoy the Love that shared by the God(infinity).
— Sushil Singh
My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Let us be the waves of love and let it wash the universe.
— Debasish Mridha
The universe created me to see its own beauty through my eyes.
— Debasish Mridha
The universe create you to see its own beauty through your eyes.
— Debasish Mridha
Be yourself to find the uniqueness of the universe.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive
—  after all the universe naturally acquires balance.
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Uni­verse.
— John Muir
Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
The universe is flux, life is opinion.
— Marcus Aurelius
When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines
— Waqas Rabbani
You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass.
— Jay Woodman
if you want to match your beat with the universe look at the deepest level of present.
— Sushil Singh
If a soul is not honoring his or her journey by dimming his or her own light, a Guardian of Light steps forward on behalf of that soul and states, “I am going to honor you, for I know you hold immense value in the eyes of the Universe and I can still see your light.
— Molly Friedenfeld
It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an unimportant tracecontaminant of the universe, even though it now is. In fact,I find it a rather appealing view.
— Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees
He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. There might be other forms of life who were receiving the noise and trying to interpret the tones.
— Jane Hamilton
Life Is Just Understanding, people Just Running but why they Run? They don't know
— Sushil Singh, System dynamics: a practical approach for managerial problems
I think that we were both the same star in the beginning of the universe and as the star exploded we drew apart. Our atoms merging into two different bodies, but over time our atoms found a way and found each other again.
— Michaela Ruiz
Good intention bring success in everything you do. Intention is always supported by the universal energy because it’s a vital ingredient for manifestation.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Each one of us has a unique spot in this harmonious and self-sustaining universe. If our desire is to succeed and enjoy life to the full both personally, professionally, and business wise, we should spot our unique place in the universe.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
When I was little, my mother used to tell me that the universe was made in sparks. Would that mean that at the beginning, someone had clacked two cosmic stones together?.
— Abdullah  Ali, Flashover
All women are a reflection, a mirror of the Goddess. Remember… you are the Universe figuring itself out. So of course you are identical to the female aspect of divinity.
— Robin Rumi
We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another.
— Robin Rumi, Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica
It came to me in whole form… that the energy of the Universe swirled and coalesced and formed into suns and cooling planets orbiting those suns. And on the planets (one specifically that I know of) the energy started swirling and coalescing into electrons and forming molecules and those merged and joined and formed microscopic life, that in turn gave rise to aquatic things, and plants and animals and beings that walked on two legs that loved and had children that in turn loved. So that all the planet is connected by the energy of the Universe, and I am part of it.
— Robin Rumi, Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica
Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?”Andrew says, “Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.
— Geoffrey Wood
Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.
— Adalbert Stifter, Indian Summer
I don't like to say I'm happy. The Universe always finds out and corrects its mistake.
— David      Willis
When you open to your heart, your entire world changes--it opens up around you. You see yourself as part of a friendly universe, one that is full of possibility, one that is generating and regenerating a positive energy.
— Baptist de Pape, The Power Of The Heart: Finding Your True Purpose
Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.
— Raphael Zernoff
The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
— Charles de Leusse
If the universe is infinite, then every possibility must exist in reality, yes?
— Zachary Rawlins
The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction between the multitude of creatures and elements which comprise it. All are equal. None is favoured. The universe, equipped with nothing but the materials and the power of creation, continues to create: something of this, something of that. It cannot control what it creates and it cannot, it seems, be controlled by its creations (though a few might deceive themselves otherwise). Those who curse the workings of the universe curse that which is deaf. Those who strike out at those workings fight that which is inviolate. Those who shake their fists, shake their fists at blind stars.
— Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords
What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.
— Rawi Hage, Carnival
what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
We enter this universe alone in search of microscopic beauty—and while we love, or are loved by others—we leave this world completely alone, having only found infinite sorrow. Despite there being so many of us, each of us tragically realizes that everyone is on a solitary journey. No one else can see what we see, hear what we hear, feel, what we feel. All we have of each other are glimpses of moments, whispers of experiences, memories of the past we wish we could make eternal, but in the end, we become a faint memory in the minds of a few good people.
— Bruce Crown, Chronic Passions
The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.
— Abraham Hicks
The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.
— Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
With its proud wings of the eagle, lighter than air; In harmony with the universe, and always be full-fledged.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
Gravity proves that the whole universe is filled with Love.
— Ankala V Subbarao
The Universe, is a woman - and she lives forever.  27.03.13
— VicDo
Besides, your a cat.Its your nature to think your the center of the univ
— Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow
We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.
— Shannon Hale, Dangerous
All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself.
— Steve Maraboli
Was that what it was all about? To know everything—the ultimate quest of the philosopher, to comprehend the universe from the highest heaven down to the dirt upon the Earth. And Wolfdon desired to go there too, wherever “there” might be.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Aizai the Forgotten
...look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
The universe whispers, “I love you.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
— Daniel H. Wilson, Robogenesis
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
— Diana Lanham, House of Aegea
I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself, feels liberating. I started to believe that the universe was conspiring to help me finish my house, sending people along at the right moment.
— Dee Williams
The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly with human beings in mind, and so unsurprisingly placed the Earth at the center of creation.Modern cosmological knowledge has refuted such an account. We are living in the golden age of cosmology: More has been discovered about the large-scale structure and history of the visible cosmos in the last 20 years than in the whole of prior human history. We now have precise knowledge of the distribution of galaxies and know that ours is nowhere near the center of the universe, just as we know that our planetary system has no privileged place among the billions of such systems in our galaxy and that Earth is not even at the center of our planetary system. We also know that the Big Bang, the beginning of our universe, occurred about 13.7 billion years ago, whereas Earth didn’t even exist until about 10 billion years 
— Tim Maudlin
She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider, but for the sake of the universe—and oh, how we philosophers make the universe weep—there is a present, and it is the time you just left.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Aizai the Forgotten
Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Aizai the Forgotten
She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
Haven’t you seen and heard that every word I seed for you is a feeling, and every thought I bloom bears a meaning? Rivers of words, blending together for the same course, the action of my being: my universe, your beauty.
— Soar
✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.
— David L. Lloyd
While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the Universe, we must find ourselves in the narrow range of possibilities which permit them, no matter how improbable they are. We must ask for the conditional probability of observing constants to take particular ranges, given that other features of the Universe, like its age, satisfy necessary conditions for life.
— John D. Barrow, The Constants of Nature: The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe
Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.
— Jack McDevitt, Seeker
The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
…only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: “Why is the universe the way we see it?” The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.
— Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
every particle being connected with every other
—  you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh.
I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
You live in a grim universe.”“That’s risk management for you.
— Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment implied. Just an observation.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?
— Christiaan Huygens
… scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.
— William Kingdon Clifford, Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.
— Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science
I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us
— Peyton J Glenn
Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
— Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science
God, bearing the whole psycho-physical existence as reflections, is also not involved in any transformation of His essence. He remains pure Consciousness alone while appearing as infinite phenomena. The whole universe exists in the transcendental aspect of God, shining there as infinite, pure, and blissful I-Consciousness. It shines within Him as Him alone, and not as anything other than Him . . . . The Universe exists in Him as pure Consciousness alone, just as all milk products are present in milk in the form of milk alone. All that is, shines within Him as “I” alone. In Him there is no trace of “this-ness” or “that-ness”. Rather, it is the outward reflections of His divine powers that appear as “this-ness”.— B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. 19.
— Balajinnatha Pandita, Specific Principles of Kashmir Saivism
Since the universe and everything in it is energy, mind power works on the principle that if you match your frequency to what it is you desire, it has no choice but to become, since like attracts like.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
It took around 500 years to human to find out that black people are human and still they don't know why the universe is black
— Emmanuel St-Pierre
Energetics is a word I coined to speak about the unseen energies of life – the invisible vibrations that flow in, around, and between each of us and everything in our universe; vibrations that though unseen, effect us and are effected by us.
— Elaine Seiler, Multi-Dimensional You: Exploring Energetic Evolution
It's true,' he begins, 'that the universe is this big, vast thing, and humans will probably never explore even a tiny fraction of it. But that doesn't mean we're alone or we're displaced from it. All these elements, everything around us, the building blocks of the Earth and life -- even the very air you're breathing -- originated from those stars. We're a part of them. Orion, Draco, Sirius . . . they're a part of us, too.'Just like that, I can't keep my eyes off Chance. Even Rachael is momentarily entranced, looking bewildered and amazed all at once.I can't help thinking about it, how we could've all come from different stars, light-years away. Wondering, maybe, if Chance and I came from the same star. If that's what they mean when two people feel they've known each other in a past life.No, not in a past life -- but that the building blocks of one person's existence could have originated right alongside that of another's.I wonder if that's why I can't seem to shake him. Why so much of my life has been focused on someone like him.'So we're all made of stars,' I murmur. So much for not opening my mouth.Chance twists around, a sad smile on his face as his eyes meet mine. 'We're all made of stars,' he agrees. 'We burn bright, then we flicker away.
— Kelley York, Made of Stars
Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study of them being the object of natural philosophy.Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space. The object of our work is to set forth the mathematical laws which this element obeys. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.
— Joseph Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat
The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.
— Kimberly Giles
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.
— Henry Norris Russell
God created Universe and gave credit to science.
— Sandeep Kakkar
Majority of people find that nature is anything that walks and grows on planet Earth, astronomers have found that this nature stretches way beyond our atmosphere as far as we can see in to the Universe.
— Michel Reitsma
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly. Early on I was fascinated by theoretical physics and determined to become a theoretical physicist. I had no real idea what that meant, but it seemed incredibly exciting to spend one's life attempting to find the secrets of the universe by using one's mind.
— David Gross
Only one knows, speaks, and lives according to what he has within. One who has the universe within him knows the true meaning of the universe. Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe is true life.
— Woo Myung, The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living
Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.
— Rajeev Kurapati, Unbound Intelligence: A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery
Music is the universe where everything is allowed
— Fallgrapp
I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars.For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe.I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.
— Craig  Stone, Life Knocks
all hopes there, so close to each other,are pulled into the void every night;when a band of pale twinkles milking the wayacross the divine breadth of skywhere every heart belongs.- From the poem "The Universe In Blossom
— Munia Khan
The universe is talking. All we have to do is stop and listen.
— Joseph Inzirillo
Any second can be the beginning of anything
—  any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe!
The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is "youniversity". YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
— Lauren Myracle (Let It Snow), Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.”“You mean God?” Kohler demanded.“God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point—call it whatever you like—the result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth—pure energy is the father of creation.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Time? Time freezesas they gazeinto each other's eyes.No beginning, no end,in sight, a deep vast ocean,a universe is reflected.Like a key to a lock,they are.All the days that have been,all the days to come;they stand in a placebeyondand within it all.
— Nancy Navene
The Universe is saying: Allow me to flow through you unrestricted, and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen.
— Klaus Joehle
The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.
— C. Robert Cargill, Dreams and Shadows
Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.
— Lauren Myracle (Let It Snow)
Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows them to react with sufficient vigor to form compounds, since electrons neither roam too freely from their nuclei nor cling too closely. This just-right balance has led many scientists to conclude that the universe couldn’t have hit upon its fine structure constant by accident.
— Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from this perspective, the periodic system appears to be rather insignificant. But the fact remains that we live on the earth… where the relative abundance of elements is quite different.
— Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.
— Harold Urey
We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.
— Kane Freeman
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe. Now, this is basically incompatible with virtually all the religious or metaphysical systems whatever, all of which try to show that there is some sort of harmony between man and the universe and that man is a product—predictable if not indispensable—of the evolution of the universe.
— Jacques Monod
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan...Stay attuned to it.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope believes there are greater forces against you but that there’s a chance you might win out. Hope is wishing. Faith is knowing. The universe is listening.
— Habib Sadeghi, Within
Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.
— Gloria Burgess, Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside: Live Your Legacy Now
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?
— Max Planck, Where is Science Going?
Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.
— Konrad
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
— Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae
The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat.1. The energy of the universe is constant.2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
— Rudolf Clausius, The Mechanical Theory Of Heat
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
— Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae
All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.
— Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe
One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboard box with God sitting outside surrounded by light, but I wanted to know if maybe God was sitting inside another cardboard box with the light on, and how could anyone be sure how many cardboard boxes there are.
— Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the excellent word Entropy, which Clausius has introduced in this connexion, is applied by him to the negative of the idea we most naturally wish to express. It would only confuse the student if we were to endeavour to invent another term for our purpose. But the necessity for some such term will be obvious from the beautiful examples which follow. And we take the liberty of using the term Entropy in this altered sense ... The entropy of the universe tends continually to zero.
— Peter Guthrie Tait, Sketch of Thermodynamics
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
— Mark Twain
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.
— Tsung-Dao Lee
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.
— Roy A. Crowson
God is not a scientific hypothesis that might rival evolution. To think he is reduces the Creator to a creature, a highly creative force within the universe. God is not an occupant of the universe at all, but an answer to the question "why is there a universe?" God and many concepts of evolution can exist quite happily.
— George Cardinal Pell
I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.
— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many paths. So many choices. Our discernment is the only way to tell which one leads to happiness.
— Thierry Cohen, Still with Me
In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.
— Michael Brooks, 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?
— Etienne Vermeersch
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
— Stephen Hawking
According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the universe as we know it would not exist; stars wouldn't form and there would be no life and no us. That supposedly makes our universe truly special. To demonstrate just how ridiculous this fine-tuning argument is, consider the fact that no measurement in physics is perfect. All of them are approximations and have margins of error. That means the universal constants, that make our universe what it is, have some wiggle room. Within that wiggle room are an infinite quantity of real numbers. Each of those real numbers could represent constants that could make a universe like ours. Since there are an infinite number of potential constants within that wiggle room, there are an infinite number of potential universes, like ours, that could have existed in lieu of ours. Thus, there is really nothing special about our universe.
— G.M. Jackson, Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution
We are all made from the same seeds. It makes sense to say that compassion, love sunshine, water and nourishing seeds will grow into healthy, happy, fulfilled plants. You don’t have to like a certain kind of bread or be a bread maker to have faith. God invented more than brand of toasters to spread the seeds of faith. Those who become self-righteous bread makers shall have self-righteous toaster consciousness.If our belief system excludes us from sharing bread with those who do not believe the exact same manner as we do, that’s when its time to re-evaluate our belief system.
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
Universe is a paradise of beautiful hidden doors.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of disorder---or even order, in contrast---is when we observe something as a detached entity. Taken as a whole, the Universe is absolute, nothing being lacking, insignificant, or improvable. So, any such thing as a Theory of Everything (TOE) is a mere chimera.
— Raheel Farooq
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
— Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry Into the Conceptual Foundations of Science
I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellation of Cygnus was a distant galaxy—1000 million light years away. This discovery showed that some galaxies were capable of producing radio emission about a million times more intense than that from our own Galaxy or the Andromeda nebula, and the mechanisms responsible were quite unknown. ... [T]he possibilities were so exciting even in 1952 that my colleagues and I set about the task of designing instruments capable of extending the observations to weaker and weaker sources, and of exploring their internal structure.
— Martin Ryle
The thought of holy comes before holy is built. Focusing on thinking healthy, positive thoughts is a precursor to the Universe channeling divine energy through us. We see, feel, touch, and smell holy once we think it. As we think, so we become.
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
Those minute seconds, flip minutes into hours; hours turn into days, weeks, years, and all these happen in a fraction of a life; placed meagerly, amid this endless Universe.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
This isn’t about convincing you whether or not there is a God. I believe God and the Universe exists. If you don’t believe there is a greater force, then surely you believe that something inside of us and is in the driver’s seat. In other words, something is driving us towards figuring out how to master happiness, peace, love, and understanding psychopaths, murderers and Taylor Swift fans.
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
It is important to distinguish 'pure chance' from 'chance' or 'accident.' Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe...Now there is perhaps a sense of 'could not have done otherwise' in which whether or not a person could or could not have done otherwise depends on whether or not the universe is deterministic.
— J.J.C. Smart
Having a finite life in an infinite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in a finite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in an infinite universe, now, that means something!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that. He tried to think what a big thought that must be; but he could only think of God. God was God's name just as his name was Stephen. Dieu was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said Dieu then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying. But, though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages, still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
God's big enough that small doesn't matter.
— N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
My sense of self has expanded and contracted like a schizophrenic accordion. I have questioned everything, and I have felt nothing. I have told the universe to f**k off, and I have fallen down weeping at its compassionate response.
— Sera J. Beak, The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark
Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is not a part of how these fluctuations work. Because of this, there seem not to be any correlations built into these kinds of fluctuations because 'law' as we understand the term requires some kind of cause-and-effect structure to pre-exist. Quantum fluctuations can precede physical law, but it seems that the converse is not true. So in the big bang, the establishment of 'law' came after the event itself, but of course even the concept of time and causality may not have been quite the same back then as they are now.
— Sten F. Odenwald
You can change your life or not change it. It really doesn’t matter in the end.Life as humans live it is too fleeting, too incidental, too minisculefor the universe to keep forever.So just do good to others; be good, allbecause it makes you happy,happy beyond fame, power, andeternity.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Hartle-Hawking derivation of the unconditional probability of the existence of a universe of our sort is inconsistent with classical theism. The unconditional probability is very high, near to 1. For purposes of simplification, we are saying the probability is 99 percent; there is a 99 percent probability that a universe of our sort—I will call it a Hartle-Hawking universe—exists uncaused.The universe exists uncaused since the probability amplitude is determined by a summation or path integral over all possible histories of a finite universe. That is, the probability that a Hartle-Hawking universe exists follows directly from the natural-mathematical properties of possible finite universes; there is no need for a cause, probabilistic or otherwise, for there to be a 99 percent probability that a Hartle-Hawking universe will exist.This is not consistent with classical theism. According to classical theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent on God's dispositions, beliefs, or choices. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural states or acts; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude.Furthermore, according to classical theism, the probability that a universe exist without divine causation is 0, and the probability that if a universe exists, it is divinely caused, is 1. Thus, the probabilities that are implied by classical theism are inconsistent with the probabilities implied by the Hartle-Hawking wave function of the universe.
— Quentin Smith
Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the annihilation of everything. Some great contraction, or collapse. Or, perhaps, some vast dissipation into eternal emptiness. Maybe it's all swallowed up by an immense black hole, which then swallows itself. But, whatever the case, their extinction is inevitable and absolute. So complete as to erase any and all evidence that this reality - this existence - ever took place. So complete that, perhaps, for all intents and purposes, it never really did. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
— Mort W. Lumsden, Citations: A Brief Anthology
Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
— George Smoot
Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.
— Raheel Farooq
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.
— Li Zhi Fang
I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.
— Stephen Wolfram
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.
— Kedar Joshi, Superultramodern Science And Philosophy
When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.
— John Rachel, 12-12-12
She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those trolleys which simply will not go in the direction you push it and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
— Greg Iles, The Footprints of God