“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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Muriel Rukeyser42
poet and political activist 1913–1980Related quotes
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) Uruguayan writer
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.”
Michio Kaku (1947) American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Canadian writer and mystic
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".”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
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". <...>
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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.”
James Jeans book The Mysterious Universe
Source: The Mysterious Universe (1930), p. 19, Pelican Books 1938 reprint of 1931 2nd ed.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher