Universe Theory Quotes

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

A static universe isn't physically self-consistent.

I kind of liked the idea of a universe that always was and always will be.

As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?