Paul Davies Quotes

For millennia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pay for the universe. It is the ultimate free lunch.

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

The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

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.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

Sometimes you do things that are fundamentally built to touch the world, and you feel good when you're successful doing it, and you're disappeared when the world fails to respond, which also happens.

The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang!

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.