Circumstances Quote by Robert Jastrow

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

— Walter Lang

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God…

— Stephen Hawking

When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously…

— Murray Leinster

Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from…

— Karl Popper

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

— Stephen Hawking

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

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

— James Dean

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

— Marcus Aurelius

“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them…

— Terence E. Fretheim