Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.