Order In The Universe Quotes:

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

- Joan Didion

topic: Strong, Order, Order In The Universe

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

- Jane Siberry

topic: Order, Circumstances, Universe, Order In The Universe

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

- Katherine Anne Porter

source: Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Stars, Order, Feelings, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Life

What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? ...there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and... the human person, endowed with the capability of choosing freely, has a grave responsibility to preserve this order for the well-being of future generations.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Responsibility, Our Generation, Order, Order In The Universe, Preserves

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.

- David Hume

topic: Simple, Order, Religion, Order In The Universe

There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Order, Understanding, Looks, Order In The Universe

Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Science, Order, Order In The Universe

The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Order, Profound, Peculiar, Ultimate Questions, Order In The Universe

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Atheist, Nice, Order, Order In The Universe

The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Order, Structure, Increase, Order In The Universe, Permanence

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

- Susan Orlean

source: Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

topic: Thinking, Florida, Order, Order In The Universe

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

- May Sarton

source: May Sarton (2014). “As We Are Now: A Novel”, p.19, Open Road Media

topic: Math, Science, Order, Order In The Universe

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Pride, Order, Omnipotence, Order In The Universe