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“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”
Katherine Anne Porter
“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.”
Howard Nemerov
“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”
Terry Pratchett
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.”
George Washington Carver
“A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”
Alan Moore
“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
“The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Mille
