The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the universe, or that you're that special or different. Because when it comes down to it, you're still fighting for food at the dinner table.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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!
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.
Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
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.
We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
