In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
—Douglas Adams
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
—Robert A. Heinlein
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
—Fred Hoyle
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
—Albert Einstein
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
I want to put a ding in the universe.
—Steve Jobs
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.
—Ann Faraday
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
—Robert Anton Wilson
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
—Amy Lowell
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness.… The whole show has been on fire from the word go.
—Annie Dillard
The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body.… Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant.
—Fred Alan Wolf
One must give back the stare of the universe. Anybody can.
—Hortense Calisher
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
—Christopher Morley in Hide and Seek
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
—Albert Einstein
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
—Bill Watterson