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| Det finns bara ett hörn av universum som du med all säkerhet kan förbättra och det är dig själv. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Det är mer mellan himmel och jord än mellan de flesta andra platser. | Fredrik Stabel (1914-) |
| Jag är större än stjärnorna, för jag vet att de är där uppe, och de vet att jag är här nere. | William Temple (1881-1944) |
| Jorden tillhandahåller tillräckligt för var mans behov, men inte för varje mans girighet. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Min egen misstanke är den,att universumet inte bara är mer underlig än vi tänker oss, utan mer underlig än vi kan tänka oss. | John B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) |
| Vi förstår helt enkelt inte vår plats i universum och har inte modet att inse det. | Barry Lopez (1945-) |
| Universet forvirrer mig, og jeg kan ikke tænke mig, at dette ur eksisterer uden en urmager. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Der er en sammenhængende plan for universet, skønt jeg ikke ved, hvad den går ud på. | Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) |
| Universet er som et pengeskab med en kombination, men kombinationen er låst inde i pengeskabet. | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| Hvis vi er alene, må det da være meningen, at vi skulle spille en mere nobel rolle, end den, der for tiden er tale om på vor plagede klode. | Tor Nørretranders |
| At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. | Jean Houston |
| There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion | John McDonald |
| The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. | Paul Davies |
| A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory. | Paul Davies |
| I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it | Peter Cook (1937-1995) |
| The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations | Peter William Atkins |
| The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-) |
| The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed | Teilhard de Chardin (1881-) |
| If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. | Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) |
| Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. | Alan Watts (1915-1973) |
| It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. | Edward P. Tryon |
| The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. | Oprah Winfrey (1954-) |
| The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| 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 (1942-) |
| The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. | Paul Davies |
| Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. | Wayne Dyer (1940-1940) |
| The Sun, with all the 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 (1564-1642) |
| Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe | Marcus Cole |
| The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. | Scott Adams (1957-) |
| The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations | Peter William Atkins |
| The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. | Agnes De Mille (1905-) |
| The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. | Orison Swett Marden |
| The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. | Paul Davies |
| Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?" | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| 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 (1942-) |
| The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |