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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“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, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy which is a member of a sparse cluster of galaxies, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are...” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.” Woody Allen, “Getting Even” - 1971

“Can we actually “know” the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.” Woody Allen, “Getting Even” - 1971

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a...” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?” Galileo Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany” - 1615

“I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

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