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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.