For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image