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Quotes About Universe

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Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein

Arthur C. Clarke
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
Arthur C. Clarke

Madeleine L'Engle
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
Madeleine L'Engle

Albert Einstein
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
Albert Einstein

John Lennon
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
John Lennon

Jarod Kintz
“I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.”
Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

Ray Bradbury
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
Ray Bradbury

Douglas Adams
“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
Douglas Adams

Ellen DeGeneres
“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
Ellen DeGeneres

Douglas Adams
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
Douglas Adams

Steven Moffat
“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”
Steven Moffat

Ray Bradbury
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Arthur C. Clarke
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

[IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996]”
Arthur C. Clarke

Amy Plum
“Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.”
Amy Plum, Die for Me

Craig Ferguson
“The Universe is very, very big.
It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.
Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.
Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”
Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

C.S. Lewis
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

Steve Maraboli
“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Bill Bryson
“Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

Carl Sagan
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
Carl Sagan, Contact

Stephen Crane
“A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!'
'However,' replied the universe.
'The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems

Carl Sagan
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
Carl Sagan

Alan Wilson Watts
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
Alan Wilson Watts

Jarod Kintz
“All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line.
”
Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

Joseph Campbell
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.”
Joseph Campbell

Anne Rice
“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

Douglas Adams
“He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus

John Lennon
“Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing me”
John Lennon

Gustave Flaubert
“There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me”
Gustave Flaubert

Jarod Kintz
“Aside from fear itself, what do we have to fear? Well, perhaps anagrams of fear, like Ear F, the all-hearing being of the universe.”
Jarod Kintz, A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No.

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