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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
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I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Results from Classic Quotes:

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.: J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964), "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.: Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
Nature is wont to hide herself.: Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
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