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• Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Specialists

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• If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Perspective

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• I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Science, History

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Play, Gambling

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• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

  Carl Sagan

  Everyday, Events, Degrees

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

  Peter De Vries

  Science, Years, Expanding Universe

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• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.80, Knopf

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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Character, Ethics

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Science, Law, Divinity

  1970 Do WhatYou Will,'The Summing-Up: Meredith Dawe'.

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• I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

  Aleister Crowley

  Belief, Made, Infantile

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 54, 1969.

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• The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Details, Architecture

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.357, World Scientific

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• It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Learning, Humility

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• The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Humor, Science, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.131, Del Rey

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• Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

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• The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

  Scott Adams

  Math, Science, Mysterious Universe

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.451, Penguin

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• Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Differences, Different

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

  Democritus

  Science, Fruit, Chance

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• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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• Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Dark, Simple

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Squares, Mutual Benefit

  Illustrated London News, 10 Oct. 1908

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• In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

  David Bohm

  Science, Men, Clue

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• This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

  Meher Baba

  Discovery, Imagination, Research

  "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba". Book by Bhau Kalchuri, 1986.

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