“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
"The Speed of Darkness"; this line is sometimes misquoted as "The Universe is made of stories not atoms."
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
Variant: The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
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Source: Democracy Now!, 8 May 2013, Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s “Open Veins,” on His New Book “Children of the Days” https://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/8/eduardo_galeano_chronicler_of_latin_americas,
“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Think on These Things (1998), compiled by Clarke E. Johnston, p. 22
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“The theory of the "expanding universe" might also be called the theory of the "shrinking atom".”
The Expanding Universe (1933)
Context: All change is relative. The universe is expanding relatively to our common material standards; our material standards are shrinking relatively to the size of the universe. The theory of the "expanding universe" might also be called the theory of the "shrinking atom". <...>
Variant: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”
Source: The Mysterious Universe (1930), p. 19, Pelican Books 1938 reprint of 1931 2nd ed.
