«The universe»

And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night, altern.

John Milton

We live in a changing universe and few things are changing faster than our conception of it.

Timothy Ferris

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile… . It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infintite and indeterminable, and consequently immoblie.

Giordano Bruno

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

Tycho Brahe

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

Giordana Bruno

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

Peter de Vries

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Many people don’t believe in God, do believe in the eventual heat death of the universe, yet despite that they continue to live and act as if their lives actually meant something.

Ray Butterworth

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Ptolemy,c.150 AD

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature, the player on the other side is hidden from us.

Thomas Henry Huxley

I have… a terrible need… shall I say the word? … of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

Vincent van Gogh

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Albert Einstein

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

Arthur Koestler

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Laurel Clark