Causes Quote by Victor J. Stenger

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

— Anonymous

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature.…

— Simon Schama

We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be…

— Ernst Haeckel

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

— Joseph de Maistre

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

— Thomas Aquinas

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs…

— Joseph de Maistre

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth…

— Michael Shermer

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

— Gao Xingjian

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look…

— Gene Roddenberry

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs…

— Joseph de Maistre

I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said…

— Albert Einstein

The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton