Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and read more

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, read more

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, read more

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others read more

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of read more

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.