Proverbs and quotes about the universe.
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'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.Richard Dawkins
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.Stephen Hawking
By exposing the absence of purpose in the laws governing the universe, science forces us to take responsibility for the welfare of ourselves, our species, and our planet.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Don't trust atoms. They make up everything.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.Stephen Hawking
I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Ron
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.Stephen Hawking
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.William Blake
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.Pearl S. Buck
Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.Stephen Hawking
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.Stephen Hawking
Nothing cannot exist forever.Stephen Hawking
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose..... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.J.B.S. Haldane
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.Albert Einstein
Pray = To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.Ambrose Bierce
Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.Stephen Hawking
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?Stephen Hawking
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.Lex Luthor
The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.Dave Barry
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.Dave Barry
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.Galileo Galilei
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.Harlan Ellison
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.Eden Phillpotts
The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.Stephen Hawking
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
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.Oscar Wilde
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.Francis Crick
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.Stephen Hawking
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.Laozi
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.Stephen Hawking
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.Charles Darwin
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.Desmond Tutu
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.Stephen Hawking
Why is there something rather than nothing?(unknown author)
