Big bang Quote by L.-Z. Fang

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with…

— Stephen Hawking

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

— Stephen Hawking

“The greatest, equally with the smallest motions of the Universe, are subjected to the rigid necessity of inevitable laws. These laws are the unknown…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.”

— Anonymous

The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

— Nima Arkani-Hamed

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and…

— Isaac Newton

“since time, space, and matter did not exist prior to the beginning of the universe, then the “cause” of the universe had to be…

— Josh McDowell

“Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate.”

— Michio Kaku

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation…

— Henri Poincare

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

— Alan Guth

“Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Leonard Susskind