#universe

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

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#only #own #suppose #suspicion #than

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

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#basic #believe #broad #desire #everyone

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#ever #expand #expanding #forever #getting

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#created #different #different kinds #kinds #many

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#directly #equations #governed #science #solve

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attempt #billion #evolved #fact #i

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#had #mysterious #origin #pretty #rise