Quotes with universe

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  • William Somerset Maugham There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Walt Whitman There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Rebecca West There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Henry Fielding There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Stephen Hawking There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Stein There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
    On his points of making Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Alan Watts 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
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William S. Burroughs 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
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Ann Druyan This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Blaise Pascal Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Brigid Brophy To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Alan Cohen Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Anais Nin Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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