Understanding The Universe Quotes:

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Education, Atheist, Thinking, Wide Awake, Pale Blue Dot

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

topic: Stars, Cheer Up, Humility, Space Aliens, Computer Viruses

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Strange World, Laws Of Physics

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Science, Simple, Goal, Space Aliens, Ability To Adapt

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Funny, Science, History, Understanding The Universe

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

- Stephen Hawking

source: Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

topic: People, Able, Principles, Understanding The Universe

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Sleep, Eye, Color, Sparkling, Sumptuous

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

- David Eagleman

source: David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.232, Vintage

topic: Understanding, Mind, Generations, Understanding The Universe

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Responsibility, Mind Blowing, Understanding, Understanding The Universe

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry...

- Primo Levi

topic: Understanding, Tables, Matter, Periodic Table, Understanding The Universe

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

- Megan Chance

topic: Understanding, Addresses, Logic, Understanding The Universe

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

- Jane Siberry

topic: Understanding, Sides, Study, Understanding The Universe

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Race, Order, Understanding, Understanding The Universe

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

- Jonathan Nolan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Understanding, Instruments, Humans, Understanding The Universe

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

- Brian Cox

topic: Understanding The Universe

In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Stars, Math, Simple, Mapping, Understanding The Universe