Quotes with universe

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  • Eden Phillpotts The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
    Eden Phillpotts
    English author, poet and dramatist (1862 - 1960)
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  • Peter de Vries The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Don Marquis The universe is not friendly to despots, and they all perish sooner of later.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • J. B. S. Haldane The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
    Possible Worlds
    J. B. S. Haldane
    English-Indian geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892 - 1964)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The universe is one of God's thoughts.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • V.A. Rosewarne The universe is so vast and so ageless that the life of one man can only be justified by the measure of his sacrifice.
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  • Giordano Bruno The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Agnes de Mille The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Sagan The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Santayana The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carroll Quigley The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Walt Whitman The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Jack Handey The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Fred Hoyle There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
    Fred Hoyle
    British astronomer (1915 - 2001)
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  • Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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