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Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to. -- Wayne Coyne
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. -- Marina Abramovic
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? -- Seth Lloyd
It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. -- Saul Perlmutter
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -- Mignon McLaughlin
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. -- Michael Polanyi
You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves. -- Nick Woodman
Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them. -- David Christian
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture. -- Martin Rees
What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos? -- Seth Shostak
I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life. -- Louie Anderson
You go to the cosmologists and ask how they tell the history of the universe; you go to the geologists, how do they tell the story of the earth, and the biologists, and then you string them together. And it turns out that when you string them together, if you do it carefully, there's a story that is coherent, engaging, fantastically interesting. -- David Christian
Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense! -- David Brin
Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?" -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe? -- Edward Boyden
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing. -- Lucille Clifton

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