“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.” IfsMenShouldBelieveLittlesHas BeensDifferentMatterShowsBodyMightUniverseCoursesForceExistenceConsciousnessSunPlanetsEvolutionThousandHundredAddProductionsComplexityMight Have BeenMarvellous Author:Alfred Russel Wallace
“All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.” ThinkingLittlesUniverseBitsFantasyRight NowLittle Bit Book:Surface Detail Source: Surface Detail
“There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.” MayLittlesUniverseToo MuchMankindGrainParticlesTrifles Author:Roger L'Estrange
“Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.” IfsTryingLittlesArtStillsIdeasSeemsTogetherJobsJoyUniverseVoiceDifferencesActressesActivismMaking A DifferenceEntertainersYou Can Make A Difference Author:Salma Hayek
“Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.” KnowsLittlesScienceUniverseMouthsCornersTongueCosmosDestined Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.” IfsWellsLittlesSoulUniverseBeliefSidesRealizingComedySeriousAmountDramaSalvationSecureMaximumSeriousnessComical Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.” PeopleWayFirstsLittlesWarEndsBigsHappensUniverseWhiteSunForeverProduceTheoryCloudsTinyReactionsChainsDesertDirtyBombsSandAtomic BombChain ReactionsWhite Sand Author:Stephen King
“In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive.” FeelsLittlesHas BeensImportantAbleSpiritualityUniverseForceCasesNeededPeriods Author:Assata Shakur
“Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.” LittlesHas BeensWholeRunningUniverseBitsAnimalRocksLittle BitMatesRunning AwayEnd TimesSpend TimeDividing Author:Terry Pratchett
“Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.” WayMayLittlesUniverseSoundPowerfulBasesVibrationsVery Powerful Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist, so my world bears largely the marks of this influence. As a sort of gateway, I started composing my own music on the computer at the age of 13. Before Shook, I had not yet discovered the kind of music I wanted to dedicate myself to, so I did a little of everything.” WorldKindLittlesAgeWantedUniverseFatherMy OwnInfluenceBearsComputerMarkJazzMusicalBackgroundsComposingPianistGateways Author:Shook
“Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?” LifeLittlesScienceUniverseConsciousnessProduceMeaninglessMechanismBeing MeLittle TimeBeing Mean Author:John P. Wheeler III
“The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.” WorldBelieveLittlesUniversePrinciplesBallsPrejudiceJewAwfulConfessionCreedsNewtonSpitBoundlessBlasphemyTaintedPresbyterians Book:The Portable John Adams Source: The Portable John Adams
“Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.” MayLittlesBigsScienceUniverseSoundWonderWeekTheoryPracticalsGoing AwayApplicationBangsCalculationsDilbert Author:Scott Adams
“Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.” LittlesHas BeensArtReasonSeemsMightArtistUniverseSocialModernExampleShapesChaosAssumptionCosmosLatentModern ArtSocial Systems Author:Kenneth Clark
“The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.” NeedsLittlesSometimesEnoughUniverseObviousAwakeSlips Author:Berkeley Breathed
“In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.” PeopleLittlesEndsProblemUniverseBitsMediaLittle BitExtrasNo ProblemPoliteness Author:Gwen Ifill
“As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did I know that one day that was going to be my future - exploring the universe of the brain and hold it in between my hands and look at cells migrating.” KnowsWayLooksLittlesHandsUsedUniverseAnimalBrainStudyOne DayConnectedCellsExploringMy FutureResearchersBerkeley Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven't seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little... I don't know. I'm ready for something different.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsLittlesDifferentUniverseSidesPerfectFansHavensReadySuperheroMansionsAvengers Author:Timothy Miller
“I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.” YearsFirstsKindLittlesKidsUniverseInterestCommunityAnswersWonderfulStreetsParticularLibraryLocalsAlternativesQueensBranchesLibrarianSupervisionInformative Author:Jonathan Kellerman