Universe Quotes - Page 10

• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

  Arthur Eddington

  Believe, Numbers, Mathematics

  1938 Tarner Lecture.

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

  William Broad

  Stupidity, Missing, Majority

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• There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.

  Gus Grissom

  Summer, Space, Earth

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

  Percival Lowell

  Discovery, Hands, Waiting

  Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”

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• It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

  Balfour Stewart

  Taken, Impossible, Cases

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• What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

  Augustus William Hare

  Children, Moving, Blessed

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• They are all up — the innumerable stars—
  And hold their place in heaven. ...
  There they stand,
  Shining in order, like a living hymn
  Written in light, awaking at the breath
  Of the celestial dawn, and praising
  Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Stars, Light, Order

  "The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous".

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• The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

  John C. Lilly

  Assuming, Damn, Wells

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• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Reality, Expansion

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• There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Religion, Orderliness

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

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• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

  John Steinbeck

  Work, Men, Wrath

  Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

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• 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.

  Rick Cook

  Winning, Technology, Race

  "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

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• Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

  Alan Watts

  Worry, Energy, Eternal

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.105, New World Library

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• The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Confidence, Perfect, Cracks

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• Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Expanding Universe, Law, Games

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

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• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Wish, Prejudice, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowing, Way, Thrive

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• The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Life, Nature, Creative

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• My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Simple, Goal

  "Stephen Hawking's Universe". Book by John Boslough, 1985.

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• A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

  Corita Kent

  Littles, Taste, Pieces

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