“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
The quote "You may have the universe if I may have Italy." is famous quote attributed to Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italian composer.
Avrai tu l'universo, resti l'Italia a me.
This is from Verdi's Attila, Prologue, sc. 1, but the words are by Verdi's librettist Temistocle Solera; translation from Michael A. Musmanno The Story of the Italians in America (New York: Doubleday, 1965) p. 255.
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Greg Egan (1961) Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
New Scientist
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Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
Speech to Working Men of Dundee July 14, 1875 - Speeches of Alexander Mackenzie during his recent visit...page 43
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
Context: Art is the great and universal refreshment. For Art is never dogmatic; holds no brief for itself; you may take it, or you may leave it. It does not force itself rudely where it is not wanted. It is reverent to all tempers, to all points of view. But it is wilful — the very wind in the comings and goings of its influence, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at vagrant, sweet moments; since we often stand even before the greatest works of Art without being able quite to lose ourselves! That restful oblivion comes, we never quite know when — and it is gone! But when it comes, it is a spirit hovering with cool wings, blessing us from least to greatest, according to our powers; a spirit deathless and varied as human life itself.
“Your waistline may be spreading but you can't blame it on the expansion of the universe.”
Richard H. Price (1943) American physicist
as quoted by Zeeya Merali in Cosmic expansion is not to blame for expanding waistlines http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18825194.800-cosmic-expansion-is-not-to-blame-for-expanding-waistlines.html, New Scientist, 1 October 2005.
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Quoted in "Stephen Hawking prepares for weightless flight", New Scientist (26 April 2007) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11722-stephen-hawking-prepares-for-weightless-flight.html
“There is no fixed, eternal frame to the universe to define what may or may not exist.”
Lee Smolin book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Annie%20Besant-In-The-Outer-Court.pdf In the Outer Court (1895)
