Quotes about the Universe (and everything that surrounds it)

I. Magical Things

The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Eden Philpotts

We are impelled by a hidden instinct to reunion with the parts of the larger heart of the universe.
-- John Boodin

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
-- Ray Bradbury

Man cannot live without seeking to explain the universe.
-- Isaiah Berlin

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
-- Edwin P. Hubble

II. Knowing the Universe

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specializing in the universe and all that surrounds it.
-- Peter Cook

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.
-- John Burroughs

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
-- Christopher Morley

III. The Locked Combination

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

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe.
-- Peter De Vries

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
--Fred Hoyle

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.
-- Anton Chekhov

IV. Let’s Go Next Door

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
-- Walt Whitman

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
-- Larry Eisenberg

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.
-- Piet Hein

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door:
let's go.
-- e. e. cummings

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