Behinds Quote by Terry Pratchett

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish…

— Ann Druyan

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't…

— Stephen Hawking

Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and…

— Theodore Hesburgh

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet…

— Jonathan Swift

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

— Anonymous

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to…

— Primo Levi

“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the mystery of…

— Walker Percy

“Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, that dwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

— Robert Boyle