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 inexplicable1. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams
I m astounded2 by people who want to know the universe when it s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen
I m worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It s not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton
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
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion3 of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion4 to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn t have to experience it. -- Max Frisch
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don t know what it s a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle
Maybe this world is another planet s hell. -- Aldous Huxley
My theology, briefly5, is that the universe was dictated6 but not signed. -- Christopher Morley
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig