Universe

(244 votes)   Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Joyce Carol Oates
1938-, American Author

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(151 votes)   If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(110 votes)   When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

Bruce Barton
1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive

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(107 votes)   They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.

Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet

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(104 votes)   My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane
1892-1964, British Scientist, Author

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(103 votes)   Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

George Ellery Hale

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(101 votes)   Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''

Peter De Vries
1910-, American Author

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(98 votes)   The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

William J. Broad

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(98 votes)   The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..

Giordano Bruno
1548-1600, Italian Philosopher, Scientist

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(97 votes)   If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.

Dr. Beverly Crusher

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(97 votes)   The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

Eugene Ionesco
1912-, Romanian-born French Playwright

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(97 votes)   To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.

Jami

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(90 votes)   No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Lazarus Long

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(89 votes)   The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(83 votes)   Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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