The profoundly ‚atomic‘ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

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

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

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

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

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

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

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?

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

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

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

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

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.

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

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Trees 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!

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.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

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

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

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.

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

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.

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.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Our 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.

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

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

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.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

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.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this 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.