Proverbs and quotes about the universe.
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'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
Richard DawkinsBefore we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.
Stephen HawkingBy 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 PinkerSource: 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 HawkingI didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.
J.K. RowlingSource: 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 HawkingImagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William BlakeIn this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. BuckMany people find the universe confusing - it's not.
Stephen HawkingMost 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 HawkingNothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen HawkingNow, 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. HaldaneOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert EinsteinPray = To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose BiercePrimitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Stephen HawkingSo 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 HawkingSome 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 LuthorThe first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave BarryThe most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Dave BarryThe 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 GalileiThe two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan EllisonThe universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden PhillpottsThe universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
Stephen HawkingThe 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 DawkinsThere is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Oscar WildeThere 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 CrickThere is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Stephen HawkingTo the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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