#universe

The chess-board 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 Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#another #anyone #bizarre #disappear #discovers

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. ↗

— John D. Barrow

#because #before #beginning #once #our

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

#great #harmony #principle #subordination #through

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

#alone #i #little #low #our

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#life #science #universe #beauty

Near the sun is the center of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#near #sun #universe