The universe has yet to take my wishes under consideration.

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…

— Lucille Clifton

When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.…

— Margaret Wertheim

“The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.”

— Terry Pratchett

Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about…

— Rainer Weiss

The universe implodes. No matter.

— Liam Williams

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

“You have the world in your hands if you have the universe in your soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated…

— Hermann Bondi

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

— George Santayana

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

— Albert Einstein

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.”

— Abraham Hicks