Paul Davies Quotes

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Things work out the way they're meant to

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.