Beginning Quote by Stephen Hawking

So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it…

— Stephen Hawking

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

— Richard Dawkins

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

— Stephen Hawking

One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected…

— Anonymous

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

— James Joyce

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first…

— Henry F. Schaefer, III

“Part of Creator occupies outer part of universe.”

— Toba Beta

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

— Elias Canetti

One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding,…

— Stephen Hawking

If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible…

— Laozi

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand…

— Stephen W. Hawking

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply…

— Luc de Clapiers