We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
—Charles Darwin
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe.. but not for us.
—Franz Kafka
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
—Stephen Hawking
You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
—Stephen Hawking
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
—John Milton
The universe doesn’t allow perfection.
—Stephen Hawking
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
—Aldous Huxley
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.
—Laozi
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist.. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
—Stephen Hawking
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
—Henry David Thoreau
I say to the universe, Mighty One! thou art not my mother. Return to chaos if thou wilt. I shall still exist. I live.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.
—Miyamoto Musashi
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
—Stephen Hawking
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
—Plato
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
—Plato
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.
—Stephen Hawking
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
—Albert Einstein