Quotes about Universe

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

Look to the stars and from them learn.

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is at the root of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe is my idea of God.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

What I want to know is whether God had any choice in the creation of the universe.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there.

This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe....What it had allowed me to perceive inside was not the Dharma-Body, in images, but my own mind; not Suchness, but a set of symbols - in other words, a homemade substitute for Suchness.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.