Dominant Quote by Jim Peebles

“events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe.”

— Stephen Hawking

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

— Stephen Hawking

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

— Frederick Lenz

The Universe responds to specificity.

— Romany Malco

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what…

— Fritz Zwicky

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

— Taner Edis

It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of…

— Alan Guth

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which…

— Anonymous

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

— Gary Zukav

There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

— Ruth Bernhard

“...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been…

— L.-Z. Fang