Universe Quotes

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts


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

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
Albert Einstein

The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?
Carl Sagan

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
Mark Victor Hansen

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

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

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William Broad

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
Linda Goodman

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
Leo Tolstoy

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Brian Pickrell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell