I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.
Brian EnoThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl SaganThere may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.
Margaret AtwoodDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee WilliamsThe first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho MarxEverything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.
Wayne DyerI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Kurt VonnegutIf you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
Stephen HawkingTrees 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!
John MuirYou are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.
Eckhart TolleIn order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert CamusTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan WattsThe gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
Paulo CoelhoThe unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBaseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
Paul AusterWe can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerSpace is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan QuayleFor 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.
Isaac NewtonTo be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
Wayne DyerI believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen HawkingWe 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.
Stephen HawkingOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirThe most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
Richard P. FeynmanLet both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. KennedyBut we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Alan WattsIt’s a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
Stephen HawkingIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil ArmstrongThe ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
Joel OsteenProtecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald ReaganIf 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?
Carl SaganThe universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.
Richard P. FeynmanEvery 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.
Nikola TeslaRebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
Albert CamusI 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThere is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt 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.
Stephen HawkingWe are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin DisraeliI 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.
Bertrand RussellFor if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert CamusIt is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganThere is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Richard P. FeynmanDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusThe missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Stephen HawkingThere is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.
Nikola TeslaWhat if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
Woody AllenI’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.
Anthony HopkinsHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus AureliusCensorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
Charles BukowskiI thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsI 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.
Stephen HawkingThe process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert EinsteinI came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIn 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.
Alan WattsBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsAtoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.
Richard P. FeynmanThe proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack LondonOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf