Order In The Universe Quotes

• Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

  Jane Siberry

  Inspirational, Order, Circumstances

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• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Stars, Order, Feelings

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? ...there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and... the human person, endowed with the capability of choosing freely, has a grave responsibility to preserve this order for the well-being of future generations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, Our Generation, Order

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• The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.

  David Hume

  Simple, Order, Religion

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• There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Order, Understanding, World

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  Order, Profound, Peculiar

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• I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

  Joan Didion

  Strong, Order, Universe

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• It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Nice, Order

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

  Freeman Dyson

  Order, Structure, Increase

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• Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

  Susan Orlean

  Thinking, Florida, Order

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

  May Sarton

  Math, Science, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “As We Are Now: A Novel”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

  Umberto Eco

  Pride, Order, Omnipotence

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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