cosmic inception Quotes

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

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.

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

The word is the making of the world

One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

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

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.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.