Giordano Bruno Quotes

There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

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.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

The universe put me in New York, and I'm so happy it did.

The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

But the universe is infinite.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

Yes, we too are stardust.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.