Expanding Universe Quotes

• Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Past, Hands

  "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.222, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• 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

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sides, Outcast, Metropolis

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Order, Differences, Entropy

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.480, Spectra

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• Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.

  Patricia Hampl

  Mind, Wish, Fiction

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• The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Player, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  Quentin Crisp

  Addresses, Sides, Outcast

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• You are the ever-expanding universe to me

  Kate DiCamillo

  Expanding, Universe

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• Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

  Peter De Vries

  Science, Years, Billions

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• The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Law, Games, Chess Game

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Long

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

  John D. Barrow

  Astronomy, Certain, Cosmic

  John D. Barrow (2011). “The Book of Universes”, p.99, Random House

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• The George W. Bush universe of threats is a constantly expanding universe as he moves to politically higher ground, escaping from failure after failure. He's not only radical, but the consequences of his radicalism have been catastrophic.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Moving, Higher Ground, Escaping

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Stars, Shining, Understanding

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• To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Knowing, Trying

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Light, Feet

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