We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

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.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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

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.

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.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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.

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

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

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

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.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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