Cosmology Quotes
Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.
We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!
The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.
Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.
The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.
If God were mortal and had but one life to give, he would have been more careful about how he created the world.
...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 finally dispelled.
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.
... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image.
