"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"
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The phrase “miracle” isn’t religious so much as defiant. Bradbury was a writer who treated science as a doorway, not a destination, and you can feel his lifelong impatience with reductionism here. Yes, we’re mechanisms - but mechanisms that dream, choose, make art, start fires, fall in love, write books. Calling it “incredible” reads like a self-interruption, the author catching himself mid-awe because the fact itself is too loud.
“Life Force experimenting with forms” slips in his signature humanism: each person is a trial run, unique, unrepeatable, worth protecting. “You for one. Me for another.” is intimate and democratic at once, yanking cosmic grandeur down to the level of two bodies in a room. Then he escalates again: “The Universe has shouted itself alive.” Existence isn’t a quiet, orderly theorem; it’s eruption, noise, risk.
Subtext: don’t waste your one shout. In Bradbury’s world - shadowed by nuclear anxiety, censorship fears, and the deadening pull of mass culture - being alive isn’t just biology. It’s a mandate to imagine harder than the void.
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Bradbury, Ray. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-are-the-miracle-of-force-and-matter-making-84711/
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Bradbury, Ray. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-are-the-miracle-of-force-and-matter-making-84711/.
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"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-are-the-miracle-of-force-and-matter-making-84711/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.








