Cosmic Forces Quotes

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

All nature seems at work.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

the wheel of fate crushes us all

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.