“The universe had to fall apart into dust first
to become its majestic, infinite self.
What makes you think
this trauma, this devastation,
won't be the making of
a more powerful you, too?”
Source: Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light
“I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien.”
Source: Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
“Set your heart on that dream and watch the universe stirring the entire galaxies to make it yours.”
“You may defy the universe. You may say, 'Let it be irrational, I am not. Let it be merciless, I will have mercy. By whatever curious chance it has produced me, nowt that I am here I will according to human values. I know the universe will win in the end, but what is that to me? I will go down fighting. Amid all the wastefulness I will persevere; amid all this competition, I will make sacrifices. Be damned to the universe!”
Source: Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
“The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together.”
Source: Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
“While you may be focusing on the closed door right in front of you, God has an open door somewhere, waiting for you to access it.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Perhaps the most wrenching by-product of the scientific revolution has been to render untenable many of our most cherished and most comforting beliefs. The tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors has been replaced by a cold, immense, indifferent Universe in which humans are relegated to obscurity. But I see the emergence in our consciousness of a Universe of a magnificence, and an intricate, elegant order far beyond anything our ancestors imagined. And if much about the Universe can be understood in terms of a few simple laws of Nature, those wishing to believe in God can certainly ascribe those beautiful laws to a Reason underpinning all of Nature. My own view is that it is far better to understand the Universe as it really is than to pretend to a Universe as we might wish it to be.”
Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“Without time and space, nothing can change, and without change, it is hard to imagine any reality worth imagining.”
Source: At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds
“Without time, nothing happens. Without space, nothing is.”
Source: At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds
“Death is meticulous in collecting every living thing sooner or later.”
Source: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization