It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.