Alternatives Quote by Wernher von Braun

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given…

— George Smoot

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required…

— Arno Allan Penzias

“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the no-explanation of…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Stephen Hawking

“Today, the concrete data point strongly in the direction of the God hypothesis. . . . Those who wish to oppose it have no testable theory to…

— Lee Strobel

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

— Paul Davies

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so…

— Richard Dawkins

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

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

“Are there any alternatives? Well, there is the hypothesis that this universe is not unique, but that all possible universes exist, and we find…

— Thomas Nagel

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life…

— David Grinspoon