Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
― Graham Chapman, The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2
Galaxy Song
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
(Albert Einstein)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former.
(Albert Einstein)
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
(Mel Brooks)
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
(Jean Houston)
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
(Carl Sagan)
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
(Arthur C. Clarke)
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.
(Stephen Hawking)
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity.
(Wernher von Braun)
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
(Ray Bradbury)
The universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.
(Laurell K. Hamilton)
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
(Bill Watterson)
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