Cosmology Quotes

"God does not play dice with the universe." "Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion" "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." "A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself." "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless" "The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice" "The entire universe is through and for me; the rest is hypothesis. " "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be" "The universe is without design and without purpose." "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference" "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual" "The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it." "The created universe is but a dream of the mind existing in the mind of God" "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy"