Universe Quotes - Page 20

• Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Rights, Sound, Wake Up

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• There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

  Dada Maravilha

  Dad, Heaven, Three

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

  Colin Quinn

  Earth, Used, Kleenex

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• Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

  Heywood Broun

  Thinking, Devil, Puritan

  Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”

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• There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

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  Ram Dass

  Accidents

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• Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the boy what he was doing he replied: 'I'm watching the man knocking holes in the darkness.' We live in a universe made dark by sin. Let's knock holes in the darkness.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Dark, Boys, Men

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• Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Expression, Law

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Taught Us, Self

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours. We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in OUR image. Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

  Phyllis Diller

  Song, Wine, Space

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• Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Bullying, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

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• Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Together, Woven, Cosmos

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• It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, People, Giving

  Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

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• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Balance, Lines, Physics

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• Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

  B. B. King

  People, Problem, Natural

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• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
  being from having one.

  Irwin Edman

  Discovery, Needs, Purpose

  Irwin Edman (1931). “The Contemporary and His Soul”

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• The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
  decisions.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Decision, He Man

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Plato, Space, Answers

  "Peering Through the Gates of Time" by Dennis Overbye, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 2002.

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• The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.

  Lance Morrow

  Secret, Events, Connections

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• It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

  Richard J. Foster

  Demand, Stoicism

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.

  Isaac Newton

  Fall, Order, Perfection

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• The universe and everything in it will someday pass away and be made new by the Creator. Therefore, the events of today that seem so important are not really very significant, except for those matters that will survive the end of the universe.

  James Dobson

  Important, Passing Away, Matter

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• Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

  Paul Claudel

  Heart, Joy, Knows

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• Angels are God's messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial charge. He has designated and empowered them as holy deputies to perform works of righteousness. In this way they assist him as their creator while he sovereignly controls the universe. So he has given them the capacity to bring holy enterprises to a successful conclusion.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Successful, Order

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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