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.

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

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.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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.

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.

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

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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.

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

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.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

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.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

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.

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.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

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

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

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.

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

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

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

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

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

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.

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

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

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.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

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

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

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

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

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

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

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

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?

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make 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.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

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.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘