Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

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.

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

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.

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

First of all, the Big Bang wasn't very big. Second of all, there was no bang. Third, Big Bang Theory doesn't tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged. It just said it did bang. So the Big Bang theory in some sense is a total misnomer.

About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

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

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

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.

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

They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

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?