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

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

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.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

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?

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

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

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.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

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

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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

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

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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

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.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

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

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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

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

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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

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

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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.