A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing Quotes
"Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake." - Jacob Bronowski
"Every day beautiful and miraculous objects suddenly appear, from snowflakes on a cold winter morning to vibrant rainbows after a late-afternoon summer shower."
"Ultimately, many thoughtful people are driven to the apparent need for First Cause."
"The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not."
"The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires."
"Our universe could be infinite in spatial or temporal extent."
"The question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is first and foremost a question about the natural world."
"Getting something from nothing may have been required for the universe to come into being."
"Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles."
"Nature comes up with surprises that far exceed those that the human imagination can generate."
"The true inspiration for this book comes not so much from a desire to dispel myths or attack beliefs, as from my desire to celebrate knowledge."
"The largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe are called superclusters of galaxies."
"The direct measurement of the geometry of the universe and the discovery that the universe is indeed flat meant that 70 percent of the energy of the universe was still missing."
"Less is more." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, after Robert Browning
"The quantum world defies all commonsense notions based on our experience with objects on a human scale."
"Electrons could behave like waves as well as particles."
"The existence of antiparticles makes the observable world a much more interesting place."
"Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes humans objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created to be sick and commanded to be well."
"We have come to accept the 'Copernican principle' that there is nothing special about our place and time in the universe."
"The universe does work on empty space as it expands."
"The energy density in empty space remains constant because, with empty space, there is nothing to dilute."
"The universe is so vast that something not impossible is virtually guaranteed to occur."
"Quantum systems can misbehave for only so long."
"Anything that is not forbidden by the laws of physics is bound to happen."
"The universe is far stranger and more wondrously strange than our meager human imaginations can anticipate."
"In quantum gravity, universes can, and indeed always will, spontaneously appear from nothing."
"The future will be dominated by a universe with nothing in it to appreciate its vast mystery."
"If there were no potential for existence, then I am certain that by now masturbation would be as hot button a legal issue as abortion now is."
"Physics is a two-way street, and beginnings and endings are linked."
"Mathematically beautiful perhaps, but devoid of substance."
"For others, including me, such a universe is invigorating."
"We live in a universe which is penetrated through and through by science."
"The journey has pushed the limits of the human spirit."
"Our journey, whatever the outcome, provides its own reward."
"The phenomenal progress we have made has brought us to the cusp of addressing the deepest questions."
"We are driven to understand the processes that govern nature."
"With science, there remains the possibility that nothing is."
"We must make an informed choice, informed by fact, not by revelation."
"The case that our universe arose from nothing seems by far the most compelling."
"Nothing expands the mind like the expanding universe."
"The eternal quietus of an infinitely flat nothingness has a grandeur that is worth facing off with courage."
"If something can flatten into nothing, can nothing spring into action and give birth to something?"
"Science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn."
"A theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong."