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UNIVERSE: The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (Unknown Source)

UNIVERSE: There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxyThere are 100 million such galaxies in the universeThere are many universes. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE: The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

UNIVERSE: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. (Walt Whitman, U.S. essayist, journalist,and poet, known as the Father of Free Verse, 1819-1992)

UNIVERSE: For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. . . . That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE: It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

UNIVERSE: The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. (John Hughes Holmes)

UNIVERSE: We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)