Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!