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Cosmology Quotes

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual"

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion"

"The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it."

"Each of us, in truth, is the center of the universe"

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

"The created universe is but a dream of the mind existing in the mind of God"

"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"

"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"

"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."

"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 more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless"

"Why is there something rather than nothing?"

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