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A.R. Ammons1 quote
Though I
have not been here long, I can
look up at the sky at night and tell
how things are likely to go for
the next hundred million years:
the universe will probably not find
a way to vanish nor I
in all that time reappear. — A.R. Ammons · 1981Bill Watterson1 quote
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson · 1989Bodhi1 quote
Just feel what the wave is doing. Then accept its energy. Get in sync and charge with it. You don't need to see. — Bodhi · 1991Cooper1 quote
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt. — Cooper · 2014Cormac McCarthy1 quote
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Edwin Hubble1 quote
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Hubble · 1929Eric Liddell1 quote
Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell · 1981George Santayana1 quote
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. — George Santayana · 1922Kate Chopin1 quote
Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. — Kate Chopin · 1899Marcus Aurelius1 quote
All that is in harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Max Ehrmann1 quote
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. — Max Ehrmann · 1933Muhammad1 quote
Walk not on the earth exultantly; certainly thou wilt never tear the earth open, nor attain the mountains in height. — Muhammad · 632Richard Feynman1 quote
I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe. — Richard Feynman · 1955Stephen Crane1 quote
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation." — Stephen Crane · 1899William James1 quote
I firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things. — William James · 1906Zhuang Zhou1 quote
The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BC