Sun Ra Quotes

The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang - the creation of the universe. That's what I really wanted to work on - the nature of the universe itself, and that's what I do for a living.

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration . . . And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.