Universe Quotes

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.

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

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

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.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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

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

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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

I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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.

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

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

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

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

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

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.

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

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

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!

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

I talk to the universe all the time.

When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Man is a universe within himself.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

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

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

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

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.

My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

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.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.