Quotations on Universe
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
-Carl Sagan
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.
-Harlan Ellison
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity.
-Wernher von Braun
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-Eden Phillpotts
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
-Sir Arthur Eddington
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
-William J. Broad
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.
-Carl Sagan
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
-Bernard Bailey
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
-George Carlin

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