#universe

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#anything #caricature #does #fun #into

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

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#constantly #creativity #direction #evolutionary #higher

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#hands #i #i see #itself #like

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe. ↗

— Celine Dion

#child #me #only #universe

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