Universe Quotes

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

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

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

The Answer to the Great Question Of…Life, the Universe and Everything…[is] Forty-two.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

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

I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

This is the universe. Big, isn't it?

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

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.

You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.

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.