Universe Quotes - Page 20

• Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Block, Atoms, Fundamentals

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• There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Communication, Men, Mind

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• When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way of thought are inabilities of the universe. I therefore define truth as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those who are better equipped.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Mean, Inability

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• Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

  Garry Trudeau

  Knights, Cartoon, Keith

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• The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

  Colin Quinn

  Earth, Used, Kleenex

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• We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Way, Daydreaming

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Art, Reality, Self

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• ...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Light, Justice

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Somewhere Else, Ifs

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

  Jan Smuts

  Mathematical, Holistic

  Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941). “Greater South Africa: plans for a better world”

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• The universe considers me its personal cat toy.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Cat, Toys

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• The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Voice, One Day

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• The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Real, Different

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.110, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

  Isaac Newton

  Law, Different, Density

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Sky, Mind

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• When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

  Phil Plait

  Ignorance

  "Phil Plait's Bad Universe comes to Discovery" (from monstersandcritics.com),

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Rights, Sound, Wake Up

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• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
  being from having one.

  Irwin Edman

  Discovery, Needs, Purpose

  Irwin Edman (1931). “The Contemporary and His Soul”

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• Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

  B. B. King

  People, Problem, Natural

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Taught Us, Self

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• Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Expression, Law

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• The basis of art is change in the universe.

  Matsuo Basho

  Art, Art Is, Bases

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• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Balance, Lines, Physics

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