Universe Quotes - Page 33

• Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

  David Hume

  Causes, Originals

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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 Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Successful, Hands

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• The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.

  John Burroughs

  Doors, Hands, May

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his or her ancestors and use that knowledge to master, understand and become able to create institutions that allow him or her to live in harmony with the rest of nature and the universe.

  James Small

  Use, Able, Harmony

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• I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

  Ziggy Marley

  Shine On, Shining, Sun

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• The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

  Norman Geisler

  Oasis, Earth, Tiny

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• One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

  Plotinus

  Principles, Creatures, Complexes

  Plotinus (1966). “Plotinus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Taken, Thinking, Civilization

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Judas Unchained”, p.906, Pan Macmillan

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• The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

  Amit Ray

  Flower, Mind, Creation

  Amit Ray, Banani Ray (2012). “OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment”, p.39, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  Marcel Proust

  Suicide, Morning, Reading

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• Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.

  Denis Waitley

  Understanding, Challenges, Growth

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• If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Sleep, Eye

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• If your message to the universe is gimme, gimme, gimme, the universe's response back to that kind of mentality is exactly the same. The universe will say right back to you over and over again, gimme, gimme, gimme. If you shift that and you say to the universe, to the world, how may I serve? How may I serve? The universe's response back to you is how may I serve you? How may I serve you?

  Wayne Dyer

  World, May, Messages

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• There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Office, Patents

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Order, Courses

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.372

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• Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

  Albert Pike

  Mysterious, Holy, Form

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• All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Shops, Visible

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• They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.

  Eddie Izzard

  Bangs, Bigs, Wells

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• In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

  John Masefield

  Inspiration, Men, Play

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• It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sin, Wealth, Welfare

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.115, Chronicle Books

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• They're {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They're the real investors. They serve them. Having a chance to be part of that Marvel Universe is just - well, it is what it is. It's just fantastic.

  Ray Stevenson

  Real, Book, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.

  Ira Flatow

  Thinking, Ice, Water

  "Cracking The Cool Science Of Ice". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 11, 2011.

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• When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.

  Adam Young

  Writing, Opportunity, Ice Cream

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• A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Trying, World, Might

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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