Top 100 Universe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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2. “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

— Carl Sagan

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3. “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

— Carl Sagan

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4. “Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”

— Carl Sagan

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5. “We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.”

— Carl Sagan

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6. “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”

— Carl Sagan

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7. “The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.”

— Stephen Hawking

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8. “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

— Carl Sagan

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9. “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

— Carl Sagan

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10. “If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can’t turn off. I dream equations all night.”

— Stephen Hawking

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11. “There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.”

— Carl Sagan

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12. “The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”

— Carl Sagan

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13. “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”

— Carl Sagan

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14. “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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15. “So much universe, and so little time.”

— Terry Pratchett

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16. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

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17. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

— Carl Sagan

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18. “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

— Alan Watts

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19. “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

— Carl Sagan

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20. “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

— Douglas Adams

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21. “To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”

— Stephen Hawking

22. “We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.”

— Carl Sagan

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23. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

— Alan Watts

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24. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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25. “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. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”

— Stephen Hawking

26. “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”

— Nikola Tesla

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27. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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28. “Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”

— Nikola Tesla

29. “How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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30. “Number rules the universe.”

— Pythagoras

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31. “My brain is only a receiver in the Universe.”

— Nikola Tesla

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32. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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33. “Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.”

— Esther Hicks

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34. “All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”

— Douglas Adams

35. “The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!”

— Rhonda Byrne

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36. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

— Alan Watts

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37. “You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”

— Alan Watts

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38. “The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.”

— Esther Hicks

39. “The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance.”

— Rhonda Byrne

40. “The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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41. “Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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42. “God created everything by number, weight and measure.”

— Isaac Newton

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43. “The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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44. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

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45. “I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.”

— Stephen Hawking

46. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”

— Rumi

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47. “You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.”

— Alan Watts

48. “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

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49. “Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”

— Paulo Coelho

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50. “I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.”

— Gabrielle Bernstein

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