Universe Quotes - Page 9

• Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Shining

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• Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

  Robert Genn

  Nuclear, Sun, Uncommon

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

  John Muir

  Science, Humanity, Unity

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• Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Men, Skulls, Infinity

  "God is Not Cast Down". Book by Kazimir Malevich, 1922.

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• The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

  Tim Ferriss

  Perfect, Lines, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

  David Travis

  Light, Imagination, Darkness

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• The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

  Dogen

  Sky, Enlightenment, Painting

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

  Loretta Young

  Prayer, Powerful, Believe

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Wish

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 332, 1980.

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• The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Justice, Elbows

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• My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Philosophy, Mathematics

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House

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• Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Hands, People

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.35, Souvenir Press

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• Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space, Climbing, Hydrogen Bomb

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• What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

  Augustus William Hare

  Children, Moving, Blessed

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• Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

  Percival Lowell

  Discovery, Hands, Waiting

  Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”

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• When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

  Akhenaton

  Land, Rays, Horizon

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• Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

  Akhenaton

  Art, Rays, Faces

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• The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

  Jacques Monod

  Attitude, Objectivity, Fundamentals

  1970 Le Hasard et la Nece ssite .

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• There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.

  Gus Grissom

  Summer, Space, Earth

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Doubt, Atheism

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

  Balfour Stewart

  Taken, Impossible, Cases

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• They are all up — the innumerable stars—
  And hold their place in heaven. ...
  There they stand,
  Shining in order, like a living hymn
  Written in light, awaking at the breath
  Of the celestial dawn, and praising
  Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Stars, Light, Order

  "The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous".

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• True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Made, Convenience

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