Aquinas St. Thomas 1225-1274
Summa Theologicae
If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent
from the universe.
Aurelius Marcus 121-180
The Universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Becker Carl 1873-1945
Progress and Power
The significance of man is that he is that part of the universe that asks the question,'What is the significance of man? „He alone can stand apart imaginatively and, regarding
himself and the universe in their eternal aspects, pronounce a judgement: „The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it."
Camus Albert 1913-1960
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
De Vries Peter 1910-1993
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Haldane J.B.S. 1892-1964
Possible Worlds and Other Essays
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose ... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.
Hawking Stephen
The behaviour of the universe on a very large scale seems to be simple and not chaotic.
Holmes John Andrew
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Holmes John Hughes
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
Huxley Aldous 1894-1963
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Jeans Sir James 1877-1946
The Mysterious Universe
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom
possesses certain exceptional properties.
Jones Henry Arthur and Herman Henry 1851-1929 and 1832-1894
The Silver King
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Joyce James 1882-1941
Dubliners
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and
faintly falling, like the decent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
La Fontaine Jean de 1621-1695
Fables 'Démocrite et les Abdéritains'
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
My theology, briefly,
Is that the universe
Was dictated
But not signed.
Mostel Zero 1915-1977
I wanted to say something about the universe.
There's God, angels, plants ... and horseshit.
Penrose Roger
The Emperor's New Mind
Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
Sagan Carl 1934-1996
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.
Santayana George 1863-1952
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interest.
Thomas Edward 1878-1917
„Out In The Dark"
How weak and little is the light,
All the universe of sight,
Love and delight,
Before the might,
If you love it not, of night.
Thomson James 1834-1882
„The City of Dreadful Night"
I find no hint throughout the universe
Of good or ill, of blessing or of curse;
I find alone Necessity Supreme.
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
Adventures of Ideas
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
