UNIVERSE

Related Subjects: Astronomy, God, Heavens

1. Nothing is more certain than that worlds on worlds, and spheres on spheres, stretch behind and beyond the actually seen.—EDWARD CARPENTER, The Drama of Love and Death
   

2. We find the universe terrifying because of its vast meaningless distances, terrifying because of its unconceivably long vistas of time which dwarf human history to the twinkling of an eye, terrifying because of our extreme loneliness, and because of the material insignificance of our home in space—a millionth part of a grain of sand out of all the seas in the world.—SIR JAMES JEANS, The Mysterious Universe
   

3. One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

4. The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.—PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
   

5. This truth within thy mind rehearse,
   That in a boundless universe
   Is boundless better, boundless worse.—TENNYSON, The Two Voices