Stephen Hawking Quotes

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science - everything can be created from nothing. It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Right thinking creationists do not impugn evolution. What we reject is a universe that made itself out of nothing.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity?

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. .... It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe. But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.

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.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"

The Ultimate Mystery: Why the universe ever existed at all.

Asking what was before the Big Bang is like asking what is North of the North Pole. It is not a defined question and has no meaning.

Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.