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

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

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

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

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.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

I 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.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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?

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.

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

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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?

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

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

I have the space and liberty to create.

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.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

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

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

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

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

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.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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.

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

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.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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.

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.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

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

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

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.‘

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

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.

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.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.