Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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

Bring them on.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

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.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

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

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

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

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.