Big bang Quote by Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

“Roger Penrose and I showed that Einstein’s general theory of relativity implied that the universe must have a beginning and, possibly, an end.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Still making a go of it. Millions of details converge like stars in the cosmos ... just waiting for the big bang!”

— Donna Danielle McCartney

“...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

“Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general theory of…

— Walter Isaacson

“Physicists define the Big Bang as a singularity. It is a point at which all the known laws of nature did not exist. Time…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

— Fred Hoyle

I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that…

— Brian Schmidt

I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe…

— Hannes Alfven

“Anyway, that was all a long time ago.’ ‘So was the Big Bang,”

— Declan Burke

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