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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Made, Happened

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• The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

  Neil Young

  Creating, Rockets, Satellites

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• I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Glimpse, Levels

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• No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Beautiful, Sky, Roof

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• The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Peace, Science, Technology

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

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• ...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

  Dean Koontz

  Might, Infinite, Infinite Universe

  Dean Koontz (2012). “The Frankenstein Series 5-Book Bundle: Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, Lost Souls, The Dead Town”, p.649, Bantam

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• When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

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• There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

  Paul Davies

  Powerful, Science, If There Is A God

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• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Space, Architecture

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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• Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

  John Burroughs

  Science, Joy, Curiosity

  "What Liberals Believe: Thousands of Quotes on Why America Needs to Be Rescued from Greedy Corporations, Homophobes, Racists, Imperialists, Xenophobes, and Religious Extremists". Book by William Martin, William Patrick Martin (p. 492), 2008.

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• Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.

  Marcus Thomas

  Truth, Light, Trying

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• The universe is a thought of God.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.189, Executive Intelligence Review

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• We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

  Leonard Cohen

  Stars, Sky

  Song: Stories Of The Street, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

  Lisa Unger

  Secret, Beautiful Lies

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.441, Crown

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• The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

  Eli Siegel

  Order

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• A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Size, Logic, Limitless

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• My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.

  Ziggy Marley

  Life, Fighting, Accepting

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2014

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• There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

  Sara Genn

  Giving, Anvils, Nudge

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• Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

  Percival Lowell

  Stars, Thinking, Mind

  Percival Lowell (2006). “Mars (Large Print)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Individual, Theory

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.206, NYU Press

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