Universe Quotes - Page 19

• If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Numbers, Atoms

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ has the answers to all of our problems. The gospel is not a secret. It is not complicated or hidden. It can unlock the door to true happiness. It is not someone's theory or proposition. It does not come from man at all. It springs from the pure and everlasting waters of the Creator of the universe, who knows truths we cannot even begin to comprehend. And with that knowledge, He has given us the gospel-a divine gift, the ultimate formula for happiness and success.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Spring, Men

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• We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Way, Daydreaming

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Art, Reality, Self

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• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  Gabriela Isler

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Miss Universe Gabriela Isler Opens Up About The Anti-Chavez Twitter Controversy" by Lucia I. Suarez Sang, www.foxnews.com. November 21, 2013.

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• ...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Light, Justice

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• Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.

  Robert Browning

  Night, World

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Sky, Mind

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• We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

  Max Black

  Children, Cutting, Fire

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• The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

  Kenneth Burke

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Kenneth Burke (1984). “Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Somewhere Else, Ifs

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• The universe considers me its personal cat toy.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Cat, Toys

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• The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Voice, One Day

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• There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Heart, Way, Fundamentals

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• The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Real, Different

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.110, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Feelings, Firsts

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• God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

  Isaac Newton

  Law, Different, Density

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Past, Reality, Existence

  Fred Alan Wolf (1990). “Parallel Universes”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

  Jan Smuts

  Mathematical, Holistic

  Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941). “Greater South Africa: plans for a better world”

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• Maybe there's a universe out there - happening now - where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I'm not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I'm seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They're not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They're scientific, anachronistic visions.

  Gaby Dunn

  Dream, Eye, Simple

  Gaby Dunn (2012). “Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn”, p.62, VOOK

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• I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Simple, Thinking, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2363, Library of Alexandria

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• When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

  Phil Plait

  Ignorance

  "Phil Plait's Bad Universe comes to Discovery" (from monstersandcritics.com),

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• The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Expression, Space

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