宇宙Universe[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-14 06:17:59

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams

 

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable1. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams

 

I'm astounded2 by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen

 

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen

 

What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen

 

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton

 

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
-- Rich Cook

 

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion3 of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion4 to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein

 

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch

 

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle

 

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley

 

My theology, briefly5, is that the universe was dictated6 but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley

 

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell

 

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon

 

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes

 

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig

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1 inexplicable tbCzf     
adj.无法解释的，难理解的
参考例句：
  • It is now inexplicable how that development was misinterpreted.当时对这一事态发展的错误理解究竟是怎么产生的，现在已经无法说清楚了。
  • There are many things which are inexplicable by science.有很多事科学还无法解释。
2 astounded 7541fb163e816944b5753491cad6f61a     
v.使震惊(astound的过去式和过去分词)；愕然；愕；惊讶
参考例句：
  • His arrogance astounded her. 他的傲慢使她震惊。
  • How can you say that? I'm absolutely astounded. 你怎么能说出那种话？我感到大为震惊。
3 delusion x9uyf     
n.谬见，欺骗，幻觉，迷惑
参考例句：
  • He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon.他患了妄想症，认为自己是拿破仑。
  • I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.我误认为他要娶我。
4 compassion 3q2zZ     
n.同情，怜悯
参考例句：
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
5 briefly 9Styo     
adv.简单地，简短地
参考例句：
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
6 dictated aa4dc65f69c81352fa034c36d66908ec     
v.大声讲或读( dictate的过去式和过去分词 )；口授；支配；摆布
参考例句：
  • He dictated a letter to his secretary. 他向秘书口授信稿。
  • No person of a strong character likes to be dictated to. 没有一个个性强的人愿受人使唤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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