#universe

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in. ↗

— John Green

#factor #hopefully #i #i always #organizing

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. ↗

— Brian Greene

#doorstep #explore #finally #precision #put

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. ↗

— John Grierson

#did #discovery #distinguished #doing #exploration

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#basic #constant #entropy #ever #highly

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#greater #i #know #nothing #something

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#average #breed #just #makes #minor

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#complete understanding #exists #goal #simple #understanding

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#describe #equations #even #fire #into

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#approach #bother #cannot #constructing #describe

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#although #beautiful #beauty #contain #give