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Scientific literature5 quotes
What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?...Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? — Stephen Hawking · 1988From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans · 1930The 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 · 1977If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we would know the mind of God. — Stephen Hawking · 1988It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. — Steven Weinberg · 1977Philosophical literature3 quotes
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns, not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. — Giordano Bruno · 1584The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BCOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus · 270Religious literature2 quotes
This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. — John H. Holmes · 1932I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Science fiction2 quotes
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams · 1978There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. — Douglas Adams · 1980Commencement address1 quote
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Documentary (film)1 quote
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder. — Werner Herzog · 2005Drama1 quote
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012Drama (film)1 quote
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012Epic poem1 quote
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Fantasy1 quote
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012Fantasy (film)1 quote
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012Narrative poem1 quote
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Western literature1 quote
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985