Why is there something rather than nothing?

“…known as the anthropic principle, ehich states that the laws of nature should allow the existence of intelligent beings that can ask about the…

— Steven Weinberg

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

— Fred Hoyle

“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our…

— Carl Sagan

“The idea of an anthropic principle began with the remark that the laws of nature seem surprisingly well suited to the existence of life.…

— Steven Weinberg

“Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the…

— Stephen Hawking

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the…

— John Polkinghorne

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life…

— Richard Dawkins

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

— Paul Davies

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find…

— Douglas Adams

“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science…

— Michael Denton

“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to…

— Francis Collins

As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without…

— George Greenstein

To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle…

— Deepak Chopra

“According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the universe as…

— G.M. Jackson

“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application it works…

— Gerald Holton