Universe Quotes

Suppose God came back from wherever it is he’s been and asked us smilingly if we’d figure it out yet. Suppose he wanted to know if it had finally occurred to us to ask the whale. And then he sort of looked around and he said, “By the way, where are the whales?"

What if the catalyst or the key to understanding creation lay somewhere in the immense mind of the whale?…Some species go for months without eating anything. Just completely idle.. So they have this incredible mental apparatus and no one has the least notion what they do with it. Lilly says that the most logical supposition, based on physiological and ecological evidence, is that they contemplate the universe…

Wonder is more than just admiration. It is a necessary part of our understanding of the universe outside and of the world of man.

What you say that is negative is an invitation to receive just that.

...our bodies' atoms are traceable to supernova stars that scattered their chemical enrichment across the cosmos, spawning the birth of star systems that contain planets, at least one of them containing life.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

The universe is shaped exactly like the earth; if you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!

Your ideas are too narrow, too crippled. I am a citizen of the universe, and a gentleman to boot!

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

Living threads more numerous than stars frame the universe of my mind.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going.