Quotations The Best Quotes About Universe  

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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. William S. Burroughs

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When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all. Bruce Barton

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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, What's in it for me? Peter De Vries

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! William James

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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

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The universe is one of God's thoughts. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Louis Pasteur

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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register. Eugène Ionesco

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The universe is wider than our views of it. Henry David Thoreau

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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. Claude Lévi-Strauss

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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. Aleister Crowley

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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places. Robert Frost

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I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am. Thomas Carlyle

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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Barbara Ehrenreich