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

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

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

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

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.

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.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

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

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

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.

And yet it moves.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

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.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.