Quotes on the nature of the universe.

[Swede]

Carl Zwanzig: "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."

Douglas Adams: "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Unknown: "Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things."

Edward P. Tryon: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

John Andrew Holmes: "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

Max Frisch: "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

Kilgore Trout: "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

Woody Allen: "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."

Douglas Adams: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

William J. Broad: "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing."

Rich Cook: "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Fred Hoyle: "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."

Ray Bradbury: "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."

Christopher Morley: "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."

Edward Chilton: "I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge."

Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson): "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

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[Richard Steele]

1. In a truly INFINITE universe, "everything" isn't merely possible, it's ultimately INEVITABLE.

[snot]

2. Great post! K&R'd. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

3. "The reason the Universe is so hard to understand ..."

"is that there's nothing else to compare it with."

[dweller]

4. ... a glimpse of the Pure Truth,

subtle, sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious, and radiantly awesome, in appearance like a mirage moving across a landscape in springtime in one contiuous stream of vibrations. Be not daunted thereby, nor terrified, nor awed. That is the radiance of thine own true nature. Recognize it.
Bardo Thodol

your universe, and you.
dp

[Swede]

5. There is truth in beauty,and beauty in truth.

Someone said that in an astronomy documentary,trying to explain why the universe is beautiful.

[InvisibleTouch]

6. I've always liked this one:

"The Universe is not only stranger than we know, but stranger than we can know." --Albert Einstein

[TheMadMonk]

7. Purportedly from the mens room at CERN. (via David Brin's, Earth)

Q. What do you get when you mix a charmed red quark with a strange one that's green and a third that's true blue?

• I don't know, but to hold them together you'll need a gluon with attitude!
  
• Sounds like what they served in the cafeteria today.
  
• Speaking of which, anyone here know the flavour of beauty?
  
• Doesn't it depend on who's on Top and who's on the Bottom?
  
• I'm getting a hadron just thinking about it.
  
• Hey! What boson thought of this question, anyway?
  
• Yeah. There's a guy who ought to be lepton!

[Nihil]

8. Mustn't forget ...

"In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."
(Terry Pratchett, "Lords & Ladies")