Cosmology Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children,…

— David Gross

“One of the most intriguing things about the universe, which probably cannot be explained by scientific investigations, is that it exists and we, who…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

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…

— Stephen Hawking

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge…

— Rainer Weiss

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

— John B. S. Haldane

I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.

— Ronald Reagan

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Physics is now saying we might be living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes. We can learn practical and creative things…

— Robert Moss

We're actually really lucky that [physics] works, because no one knows why the thoughts in our heads should relate to the fundamental workings of…

— Suman Rai

“Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?…

— Stephen Hawking

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

— Isaac Asimov

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists,…

— Stephen Hawking