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- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.
- Cicely Tyson
- Accidents ruled every cornor of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars
- Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love
- Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
- David Brin (1950 - )
- It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
- Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted, 1993
- The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science.
- Edward Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
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