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Letter "U" » Universe
«The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Universe,
World
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bunch, bunches, depending, depending on, grapes, on it, planets, revolve, revolves, revolve around, revolving, ripen, ripened, ripens, The Planets
«The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.»
Author: Paul Davies
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
contains, galaxies, irrelevant, ordered, the Galaxy, vastly, well-ordered
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
philosopher, relieve, struggling
«The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Funny,
Universe
| Keywords:
base, base ten, counting, mysterious, numbers
«The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
balance, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, charm, depended, forces, identified, identifies, identifying, operation, persuasion, persuasions, uncertainty
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature,
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
board, board game, chess, chess game, chess player, Laws of nature, Other side, phenomena, player, Rules of, the laws of nature, The other side, The Player, The Rules
«The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
jumble, jumbled, jumbles, jumbling, muddle, muddled, peril, predictability, regularities, regularity
«The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms»
«The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men»
«The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Religion,
Universe
| Keywords:
expansion, expansions, reduction, reductions
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