Quotes About Beginning

Apa yang Tuhan lakukan sebelum Dia menciptakan alam semesta? Agustinus tak menjawab: Dia mempersiapkan Neraka untuk orang-orang yang bertanya seperti itu. Dia malah mengatakan bahwa waktu adalah bagian alam semesta yang Tuhan ciptakan, dan waktu tidak ada sebelum permulaan alam semesta.

On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could still imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

Beberapa orang merasa bahwa sains seharusnya hanya membahas bagian permulaan; mereka menganggap persoalan keadaan alam adalah urusan metafisika atau agama. Mereka berkata bahwa Tuhan yang Mahakuasa dapat memulai alam semesta dengan cara apa pun yang Dia mau.

En el instante del Big Bang, algo maravilloso sucedió con el tiempo. El tiempo mismo comenzó.

What happened before the beginning ? What was God doing before he made the world? Was he preparing Hell for people who asked such questions?

In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe;

Contanto que o universo tenha tido um início, podemos supor que houve um criador. Mas, se o universo fosse de fato absolutamente contido em si mesmo, sem contorno nem borda, ele não teria início nem fim: ele simplesmente seria. Nesse caso, qual é o papel de um criador?

but also that it is possible that nothing caused the Big Bang. Nothing.

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a grand designer and revealing how the universe created itself.

As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang.

Teori relativitas umum Einstein menyiratkan bahwa alam semesta harus punya permulaan dan, mungkin akhir.

Gagasan bahwa kita bisa berjalan mengelilingi alam semesta dan kembali ke tempat semula itu cocok dijadikan fiksi sains, tapi tidak punya banyak arti praktis karena bisa ditunjukkan bahwa alam semesta keburu runtuh menjadi berukuran nol sebelum kita bisa kembali ke titik awal. Kita perlu bergerak lebih cepat daripada cahaya agar bisa sampai ke titik awal sebelum alam semesta berakhir—dan itu tak diperbolehkan!

Banyak orang tak suka gagasan bahwa waktu punya permulaan, barangkali karena terkesan melibatkan campur tangan Ilahi.

En consecuencia, si solo sabemos lo que ha sucedido desde el big bang, no podemos determinar lo que sucedió antes. Para nosotros, los sucesos anteriores al big bang no pueden tener consecuencias, de modo que no deberían formar parte de un modelo científico del universo. Por eso deberíamos eliminarlos del modelo y decir que el tiempo tuvo un comienzo en el big bang.

dan kesadaran mengenai betapa kecilnya planet kita sendiri di tengah luasnya alam semesta, hanyalah titik awal.

we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe.

One of the big questions we discussed was the origin of the universe, and whether it required a God to create it and set it going.

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

where the world ends is where you must begin

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.