The 80 best phrases (and reflections) about the Universe
The universe is as complex as its size allows. Since ancient times, people have been fascinated by what inhabits that outer space that is not can fully appreciate with the naked eye, but with the passage of time and technology, we increasingly know plus. The Cosmos has awakened in all of us great reflections, but some of them have been captured in the form of quotes for posterity.
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Great quotes and reflections about the Universe
To know that inspiration and dedication to the exploration of the cosmos, we bring below a compilation with the best phrases about the universe.
1. There are as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in an average galaxy. We are, each one of us, a small universe. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
We are all a different and unique universe.
2. I know that the universe exists because I am inside it. (Miguel Serra Caldentey)
The universe is our home.
3. Sometimes I think that the surest proof that there is intelligent life in the universe is that no one has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson)
An interesting stance on extraterrestrial life.
4. The universe was not tailor-made for man; he is not hostile to him either: he is indifferent. (Carl Sagan)
The universe is just a space full of stars, planets and life.
5. Unity is variety, and variety in unity is the supreme law of the universe. (Isaac Newton)
The way the universe works according to the physicist.
6. When you really want something, the whole Universe conspires to help you get it. (Paulo Coelho)
Seeing the universe as a source of energy that benefits us.
7. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. (Albert Einstein)
Well, we know that the universe is not infinite.
8. There are two possibilities: we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Not knowing makes us anxious.
9. The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. (BlaisePascal)
A peculiar way of observing how the universe is composed.
10. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be discovered. (Carl Sagan)
The cosmos is so vast that we can always discover something new.
11. I have a naive trust in the universe that, on some level, it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
In the eternal search for answers about the mystery of the cosmos.
12. You can search the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than yourself, and that person is nowhere to be found. (Buddha)
The first person to whom you should dedicate love and fidelity is yourself.
13. Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. (Maya Angelou)
The universe is not static.
14. No matter how big we think we are, the universe is much bigger. (Sally Stephens)
We are insignificant compared to the size of outer space.
15. The universe is infinite galaxies, infinite stars, infinite stones and not a single feeling. There is no evil in the spheres, since no one who is registered lives in them. (Manual Vincent)
Labels are things invented by humans.
16. Look at the stars and not at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and ask yourself what makes the universe exist. Be curious. (Stephen Hawking)
An invitation to learn more about the world.
17. Earth is a small city with many neighborhoods in a very large universe. (Ron Garan)
We are like a small town in a very big country.
18. Suddenly it seemed to me that this pretty little blue pea was the Earth. I put my thumb down and closed one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. (Neil Armstrong)
Talking about how it felt to see the earth from space.
19. The way of budo is to make the heart of the universe our own heart. (Morihei Ueshiba)
In tune with the vibes we receive from space.
20. If God is only the energy that keeps the Universe alive, if he is something so immeasurably infinite, what can he care about me, an atom badly perched on an insignificant louse of his Kingdom of him? (Mario Benedetti)
Talking about the role of God and the infinity of it.
21. The instant of the cosmic explosion was literally the moment of creation. (Robert Jastrow)
Creation began with the Big Bang.
22. Man cannot live without trying to describe and explain the universe. (IsaiahBerlin)
We have an insatiable taste for discovering new things.
23. If we really saw the Universe, maybe we would understand it. (Jorge Luis Borges)
See it not necessarily with the eyes, but with the heart.
24. But there is one thing that will remain forever marked in the soul of the universe: my love. (Paulo Coelho)
Remember that your actions and your emotions are unique.
25. We have been pointing antennas at the universe for many decades to see if we get a signal from somewhere. (Peter Duke)
Seeking to make contact with extraterrestrial life.
26. We must try to understand the beginning of the Universe from scientific bases. It may be a task beyond our capabilities, but we should at least try. (Stephen Hawking)
Insisting on seeing the creation of the universe as a scientific fact and not mystical.
27. I bet sometimes you could find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. (Benjamin Alire Saenz)
There are people who surprise us with their knowledge and way of being.
28. I am sure that the universe is full of intelligent life. He's just been too smart to come here. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Do you think this is a possibility?
29. We are the means for the Cosmos to know itself. (Carl Sagan)
Scientists are looking for ways to make us understand the cosmos and get a little closer to it.
30. In a vast universe, whose limits we do not know, nor do we know all the species that inhabit it, let alone all the dimensions that cross it; in this framework a beautiful story takes place that can never happen again since it already happened. (Ulysses Pastor Barreiro)
Time is relative.
31. The magic is only in what the books say, in how they sewed the patches of the universe into a single garment for us. (Ray Bradbury)
Books are the engine that ignites our curiosity.
32. What is the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What matters is that we are part of it. (UrsulaK. Le Guin)
The most important thing is that we are part of the universe.
33. Do not feel alone, the whole universe is within you. (Rumi)
Everyone is a galaxy itself.
34. Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly with us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam)
We are never really alone.
35. We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. (Ray Bradbury)
On the formation of life in the universe.
36. The universe created you so that you can offer the world something different from what others offer. (Rupi Kaur)
Don't give up on your dreams.
37. The Universe now appeared to me as a void where strange snowflakes floated, and each flake was a Universe. (Olaf Stapledon)
About his experience with the cosmos.
38. If you love a flower that is on a star, it is comforting to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a riot of flowers. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
The stars always make us feel something special.
39. God or the Universe never rushes and his plans, unknown to us, are never rushed. (Carol Crandel)
Everything has its time and place.
40. Don't you know that it is your joy that makes the universe joyful? (Debasish Mridha)
Your joy can influence someone else's.
41. The physical universe and its bustling machinery, its fantastic landscape. (Laura Kasischke)
We can recreate the universe when we go out and see all life.
42. Even the brightest stars burn out in the end. (Trevor Driggers)
Everything has its end.
43. When it's dark enough, you can see the stars. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is in the most absolute darkness, where the stars shine very brightly.
44. My theology, in short, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. (Christopher Morley)
His way of conceiving the universe.
45. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. (Arthur Stanley Eddington)
The cosmos will always have mysteries that we cannot solve.
46. Follow your happiness and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. (Joseph Campbell)
Things flow when you work for it.
47. All the powers of the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands in front of our eyes and cry because it is dark. (Swami Vivekananda)
Only we have the power to turn on the light in our darkness.
48. If you want to travel to the stars, don't look for company. (Heinrich Hein)
Apparently it is a trip that we must make on our own.
49. The more we examine the universe, the more we discover that it is by no means arbitrary, but rather obeys certain well-defined laws that work in different fields. (Stephen Hawking)
It is not something that happens by mistake or spontaneously.
50. Every morning, when we wake up, we resurrect; because when we sleep we die for a few hours in which, free from the body, we recover the spiritual life that we had before when we were still we did not inhabit the flesh that now defines and limits us, and we were, without being, pure mystery in the total rhythm of the Universe. (Elias Nandino)
A very beautiful way to see how restful our sleep is.
51. The whole universe exists within you; ask yourself everything. (Deepak Chopra)
We have the answers we seek, we just have to listen to our interior.
52. The music in the soul can be heard by the universe. (Lao Tzu)
Music has infinite power.
53. Every carbon atom in every living thing on this planet was produced in the heart of a dying star. (BrianCox)
The way life was given, through a tragic event.
54. Once we have identified a hundred or a thousand very potential planets for life, we will be able to target precisely those places with much greater precision. (Peter Duke)
About future plans to bring life on earth to other places.
55. There is a theory that if anyone ever finds out exactly what the Universe is for and why what exists, it would instantly disappear and be replaced by something much rarer and inexplicable. There is another theory that this has already happened. (Douglas Adams)
A very terrifying theory.
56. Wouldn't it be strange if a purposeless universe accidentally created human beings who are so obsessed with purpose? (Lee Strobel)
A question that gives us food for thought.
57. I believe in the existence of a superior intelligence in the universe. (Thomas Álva Edison)
Many of us believe that intelligent life exists outside of our planet.
58. The most practical and important thing in a man is his concept of his Universe. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Many become obsessed with their idea of what the cosmos is.
59. The universe is but a vast symbol of God. (Thomas Carlyle)
A spiritual way of seeing the universe.
60. The universe with all its pomp and beauty is chaos for man without faith. (John Valera)
In a certain way it is an organized chaos that brings us life.
61. Whether or not it's clear to you, the universe is certainly unfolding as it should. (Max Ehrman)
Coincidences do not exist.
62. With the help of our imagination, we have managed to create a new universe within this universe! (Mehmet Murat Ildan)
Imagination is a very powerful weapon.
63. There is at least one corner of the universe that you can surely improve, and that is yourself. (Aldous Huxley)
If there is a place for us that is waiting for us.
64. The Universe is full of greed. (Jose Motte)
Unfortunately, greed is a vine that only grows and spreads.
65. The imagination of the universe always remains wider than our human imagination. (JulieJ. Morley)
Even so, we can make the attempt to match it or recreate it.
66. Science is not religion. We will not be able to answer the “Why” questions. But when you put everything we know about the universe together, it fits together incredibly well. (Lisa Randal)
Science and religion do not have to be enemies.
67. I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. (RichardP. Feynmann)
We are part of a whole and a whole made up of many parts.
68. The more understandable the universe seems, the more nonsense it seems too. (Steve Weinberg)
There is much that we have discovered and there is even more that we do not know.
69. A single smile greatly increases the beauty of the universe. (Sri Chinmoy)
Our universe is based on emotions.
70. To the mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders. (Lao Tzu)
It is in serenity where we manage to solve any problem.
71. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. (BlaisePascal)
Outer space can also be a scary place.
72. Never apologize for burning too hot or falling into yourself every night. This is how galaxies are made. (Tyler Kent White)
For something it is said that each person is a universe.
73. Whoever lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. (Marcus Aurelius)
People who are in tranquility, only seek peace.
74. Each one of us is precious, in a cosmic perspective. If someone disagrees with your opinions, let them live. In a trillion galaxies, you wouldn't find another like it. (Carl Sagan)
You are special and therefore you should not endure mistreatment.
75. The origin of the Universe requires an intelligence', an 'intelligence on a larger scale', 'an intelligence that preceded us and that decided to form, as a deliberate act of creation, suitable structures for the life. (Fred Hoyles)
Understanding the universe is a more complex task than we imagine.
76. We are not only in the Universe, the Universe is in us. I know of no deeper spiritual feeling than the one that produces that in me. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
It is, perhaps, the greatest reciprocal relationship.
77. All the stories contained here are oriented to the awareness of the vast universe in which we live and the understanding of the singularity that makes our terrestrial ecosystem. (Ulysses Pastor Barreiro)
The universe as something that influences our own energy.
78. There must be something very special about the limits of the universe. And what is more special than the fact that there are no limits? And there should be no limits on human endeavor. We are all different. (Eddie Redmanne)
Limits are imposed by our insecurities. That's why you always have to try to take them down.
79. Nothing perishes in the Universe; everything that happens in it is nothing more than mere transformations. (Pythagoras of Samos)
The universe is constantly changing.
80. If we are alone in the Universe, it is a terrible waste of space. (Carl Sagan)
Undoubtedly.