To 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.

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

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.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created 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.

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

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.

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.

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

I 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.

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

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

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?

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

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

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

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.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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

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

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

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. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

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.

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.

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

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

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

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

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

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

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

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

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

There 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.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

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.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

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

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.