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“Matter,�� Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.��
“You mean God?�� Kohler demanded.
“God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point—call it whatever you like—the result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth—pure energy is the father of creation.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the universe has already gone through many oscillations, many possible laws of gravity would have been so weak that, for any given initial expansion, the universe would not have held together. Once the universe stumbles upon such a gravitational law, it flies apart and has no further opportunity to experience another oscillation and another cusp and another set of laws of nature. Thus we can deduce from the fact that the universe exists either a finite age, or a severe restriction on the kinds of laws of nature permitted in each oscillation. If the laws of physics are not randomly reshuffled at the cusps, there must be a regularity, a set of rules, that determines which laws are permissible and which are not. Such a set of rules would comprise a new physics standing over the existing physics. Our language is impoverished; there seems to be no suitable name for such a new physics. Both 'paraphysics' and 'metaphysics' have been preempted by other rather different and, quite possibly, wholly irrelevant activities. Perhaps 'transphysics' would do.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“God created�� light and
dark, heaven and hell��
science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created
everything in the universe with an opposite.
“Including matter itself, antimatter”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.”
― Ted Chiang, The Great Silence

“All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe.”
― Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." ... In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
― Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“A long time ago,
there was diddly-squat.
Just nothing at all,
except... one tiny dot.”
― Joseph Raphael Becker, Annabelle & Aiden: Worlds Within Us

“An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists �� or that He doesn’t.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.”
― Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“Results for "one cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid and that makes me sad. ”
― Sheldon

“The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.”
― Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.”
― Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.”
― Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“When in a little corner
on a tiny blue dot,
deep under the ocean,
in a very special spot...
an itty bitty thing
woke up anew
and came alive.
I tell you, it's true!”
― Joseph Raphael Becker, Annabelle & Aiden: The Story Of Life

“The purpose of life seems to be to torment human beings with the question as to what the purpose of life is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana