Universe quotes

“Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.” Richard Dawkins

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” Charles Darwin

“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.” Bertrand Russell

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

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.” William Blake

“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.” David Bowie

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

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

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Carl Sagan

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” Carl Sagan

“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” Carl Sagan

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” Carl Sagan

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?” Carl Sagan

“Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.” John Steinbeck

“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.” Desmond Tutu

“The universe can take quite a while to deliver.” Desmond Tutu

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” Virginia Woolf

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” Walt Whitman

“The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.” Walt Whitman

“I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?” Walt Whitman

“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.” Walt Whitman

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” Alan Watts

“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.” Alan Watts

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.” Alan Watts

“The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.” Alan Watts

“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

“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.” Alan Watts

“The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.” Alan Watts

“The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.” Ansel Adams

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” Marcus Aurelius