Universe Quotes - Page 17

• Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Would Be, Paper

  "Interesting Times (Discworld, Book 17)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 186), 1994.

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• The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Irony, Maximum

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• The basis of art is change in the universe.

  Matsuo Basho

  Art, Art Is, Bases

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• Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Rivers, Tree

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• The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

  Gregory Bateson

  Thinking, Perception, Process

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• It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Rhetorical Strategies, Law, Catholic

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• Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.

  Dan Barker

  Agency, Decision, Acting

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.137, Ulysses Press

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• Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Firsts, Facts, Moments

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• The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Matter, Speed, Hours

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• There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.

  Simon Critchley

  Lonely, Community, Together

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• The universe without music would be madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Would Be, Madness, Without Music

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• We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Dad, Memories

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• The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Essence, Answers

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.211, Penguin UK

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• We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Creative, Meditation

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• As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, Atoms, Cosmic

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Sun, Earth, Vastness

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.151

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• I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Men, Air

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• To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Skills

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.

  Steve Pavlina

  Block, Reality, Shows

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• Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Creative, Energy Of The Universe

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• We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

  Eben Alexander

  Connected

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• The total number of minds in the universe is one.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Numbers, Mind

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• Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

  David Brin

  Asking, Fine, Make Sense

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• A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Subordination, Aspect

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

  Lisa Randall

  Creating, May, Being True

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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