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David McCord
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| "A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and
order." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "As I walk, As I walk The Universe is walking with me." | |
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Proverb
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| "Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set
of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations
and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science
of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why
there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the
universe go to all the bother of existing?" | |
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Stephen William Hawking
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| "Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he
constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility,
perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill
him with divine light." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are
different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in
communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This
is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or
die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me
important it itself, but only the whole. The whole is in all its parts so
beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am
compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that
this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is
peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one"s
affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one"s self,
or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of
the spirits." | |
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Robinson Jeffers
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| "I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more
surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the
universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can
suppose." | |
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
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| "I want to put a ding in the universe." | |
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Steve Jobs
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| "If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life
and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the
greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more
this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity
declines." | |
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Piet Mondrian
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| "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent
the universe." | |
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Carl Edward Sagan
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| "Listen; there"s a hell Of a good universe next door; let"s
go." | |
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Edward Estlin Cummings
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| "MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the
universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than
it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be
larger than they had been." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he"ll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Tell a man that there are 6 billion stars in the sky and he will
believe you. Tell him that the paint on a park bench is wet and he has to
touch it to find out." | |
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Unknown
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| "The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a
base ten counting system and likes round numbers." | |
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Scott Raymond Adams
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| "The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is
biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an
abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the
universe." | |
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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
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| "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." | |
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Kilgore Trout
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| "The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply
indifferent." | |
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John Hughes Holmes
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| "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
ambition." | |
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Carl Sagan
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| "The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the
characters of individuals." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the
universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more
bizarrely inexplicable." There is another theory that states: "This has
already happened...."" | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe." | |
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John Muir
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