Universe Quotes - Page 32

• The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

  Dennis Prager

  Numbers, Design, Enough Time

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• All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

  Dennis Prager

  Reading, Biblical, Men

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.39, Creators Publishing

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• I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Needs, Relevant, Wells

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• If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Wisest Man, Order

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• I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

  Joyce Giraud

  Girl, Queens, Ambition

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• There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

  Elaine Pagels

  Light, Shining, Darkness

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas”, p.38, Vintage

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• The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

  Jack Vance

  Intelligent, Eight, Years

  Jack Vance (1964). “The Houses of Iszm”, p.52, Spatterlight Press

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• The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

  Alan Cohen

  Adventure, Journey, Yield

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• Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Makeup, Age, Faces

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• When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.

  Barbara Rose

  Men, Quality, Want

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• The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

  Seth Shostak

  Stars, Law, Firsts

  "Who or What Built the Universe?" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2010.

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• Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Speed, Ready

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• So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.' Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Government, Law

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.110, Hoover Press

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• We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Order, Strange Places

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

  Herbie Hancock

  Evolution, Offers, Humans

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• Your only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

  Anita Moorjani

  Being Yourself, Purpose

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• The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place, underscoring that we are not lords of the universe but components of it...So when the world seems to be falling apart, when we humans seem to be creating messes everywhere we turn, maybe it's time to rejuvenate in the cathedral of the wilderness - and there, away from humanity, rediscover our own humanity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Fall, Creating, Forever

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• If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Hands, Bangs

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• The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

  Ali Vincent

  Happiness And Success, Enough

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• There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

  Neil Turok

  Past, Bangs, May

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• One of the truths I most deeply believe is that everything in life - everything - is energy. Within every one of us is the energy that makes the sun rise every day and keeps the planets aligned. It's there, already inside of you, waiting for you to know it. And when you tap in with that connection, that source, that miraculous energy, what I know for sure is that the universe rises up to meet you in unimaginable ways and help you create the life that you want.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Waiting, Energy

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• The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Struggle, Fighting

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the universe is still hurtling through outer space under the impact of the great cosmic explosion.... I think grace sometimes explodes into our lives like that-sending our pain, terror, astonishment hurtling through inner space until by grace they become Orion, Cassiopeia, Polaris to give us our bearings, to bring us into something like full being at last.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, Thinking, Hard Times

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• Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

  Pythagoras

  Law, All Things, Knows

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Self, Wind

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.235, Penguin UK

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