The Universe

• There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. —Douglas Adams
• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. —Albert Einstein
• I think the most important question facing humanity is, 'Is the universe a friendly place?' This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves. —Albert Einstein
• In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happens from time to time. —Edward P. Tryon
• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. —John Andrew Holmes
• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. —Max Frisch
• The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. —Kilgore Trout
• The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. —William J. Broad
• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. —Rich Cook
• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. —Ray Bradbury
• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. —Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
• The universe is wider than our views of it. —Henry David Thoreau