#universe

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#friendship #gift #hug #i #limit

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#center #church #curved #death #down

Humor is just another defense against the universe. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#against #another #defense #just #universe

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

You may have the universe if I may have Italy. ↗

— Giuseppe Verdi

#italy #may #universe #you

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#center #i #i am #i think #therefore

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! ↗

— Craig Bruce

#believe #could #entire #entire universe #foolish