“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where it is. We have maps of its presence within and around galaxies throughout the universe. We even have stringent constraints on what it is not, but we have no clue what it is. And yes, its presence is overwhelming: for every one kilogram of ordinary matter made out of neutrons and protons and electrons, there are five kilograms of dark matter, made out of who-knows-what.”
Source: The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
“The entire tension of life is oriented toward thisdesire—until human beings finally discover themselves.And discover that they are not truly separate beings, butpart of the One and the All: an organism interconnectedwith other organisms. A single heartbeat that is theuniverse itself.The entire path of each one of us is an eternal returntoward what we are—not what we think we are.For everything moves in circles, within an endlessredundancy.”
Source: Narcissus, my love
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There's nothing magical in them at all. Magic is only what books mean, what books say. How they stitch the patterns of the universe together into one garment for us.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' (“The Bogey Man”)”
Source: Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
“After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.”
Source: Old Man's War
“Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?
Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe.”
Source: Stories of Your Life and Others
“There are no walls at the edge of this universe...
absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Some folk say I'm a fool, but there's more to this world than meets the eye.' I waited quietly.
'There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson