James Taylor Quotes

The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein's statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.

I'm still amazed at how the universe works.

We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

The universe is a great mystery.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, “Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I hope Let Me In doesn't encourage it! I mean, vampires might be real! Honestly, I don't know. It's like saying aliens are real. I don't know. We are so tiny in the spectrum of the universe, we're a speck of dust compared to some galaxies, and so who knows what's out there? We barely even know our own - we know more about space than we know about our own sea.

The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.

I don't know what's up there / Beyond the sky