Universe Quotes
The parts of the universe … all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Consciousness... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
The universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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.
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
