Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

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

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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.

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

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

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.

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.

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?

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

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.

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!

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

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

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

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.

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.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

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

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

Baseball 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.

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

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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 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.

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

What one fool can understand, another can.

Language is the dress of thought.

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.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

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.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

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.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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

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

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.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

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

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

For 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.