Ray Bradbury Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Philosophy, Imagination

  Ray Bradbury (1975). “Long after midnight”

• We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Moving, Astronaut

  "Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN: Living, August 02, 2010.

• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

  Ray Bradbury

  Science, Impossible, Universe

• The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Magic, Together

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

• We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Stars, Giving

  Speech to National School Board Association, 1995.

• We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Past, Worry

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

• The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

  Ray Bradbury

  Miracle, Alive, Martian Chronicles

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

• And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Land, Clouds

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

• We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Missing, Magic

• My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Earth, Universe

• Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lonely, Wall, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

• Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Reality, Mad

• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Real, Law

• The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

  Ray Bradbury

  Alive, Pay, Life Is

  Speech at Eureka College, 1997.

• There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Women, Race

• I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Believe, Miracle

  AARP Magazine, July-August 2008.

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