Universe Quotes - Page 25

• In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Light, Meditation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

  Paul Davies

  Drama, Believe, Fate

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• I was between 14 and 15, when I went through my angsty period. I was never very rebellious. I never did things to rebel against society, or against my parents, but I did think I knew everything. Then, one day, I woke up and realized I was a dot in this universe, and that quickly dissipated.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Parent, One Day

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.

  Geddy Lee

  Fun, Years, Age

  "Geddy Lee on 40 years of Rush". Interview with Becca James, www.avclub.com. December 4, 2015.

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• Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

  James Alan Gardner

  Vacuums

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.200, Open Road Media

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• The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Honesty, Light, Goal

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• What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Sun, Earth, Vastness

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.151

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• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  A. B. Simpson

  Divine Wisdom, Mind, World

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.43, Moody Publishers

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

  Natalie Massenet

  Believe, Different, Moments

  "Natalie Massenet: The Chairman of Cool" by Mike Albo, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.

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• People who know what they want, the universe has a way for clearing a path for them. When you want something bad enough, it's going to happen for you. You can almost manifest your own destiny by always focusing on it. Almost like the law of attraction. If you really know what you want, the chances of you finding it are so much more strong. It's almost as if it will come fall right on your lap. I know that I want to be champion.

  Jon Jones

  Strong, Fall, Destiny

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• But the universe is infinite.

  Epicurus

  Infinite

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• Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

  Rumi

  Silence, Secret, Speak

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• When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Harmony, Feels

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Miscellaneous writings”, p.1243, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.

  Laozi

  Stars, Night, Practice

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• Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Perfect, Enlightenment, Alive

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• Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.

  Hugh Ross

  Years, Earth, Facts

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• Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

  Fred Hoyle

  Real, Clue, Fantastic

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

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• We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Mean, Support

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

  Thea Bowman

  Sister, God, Religious

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

  Jason Jones

  Children, Father, Struggle

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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