Quotes About Existence

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

complete, consistent, unified theory is only the first step: our goal is a complete understanding of the events around us, and of our own existence

Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

The success of A Brief History indicates that there is widespread interest in the big questions like: Where did we come from? And why is the universe the way it is?

If you like, you can say that the laws [of nature] are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence.

We were told that you can never get something for nothing. But now, after a lifetime of work, I think that actually you can get a whole universe for free.

So what does this mean in our quest to find out if there is a God? It means that if the universe adds up to nothing, then you don't need a God to create it. The universe is the ultimate free lunch.

How do we know that we are not just characters in a computer-generated soap opera?

If the boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary in imaginary time, it won't have just a single history. There are many histories in imaginary time and each of them will determine a history in real time. Thus we have a superabundance of histories for the universe. What picks out the particular history, or set of histories that we live in, from the set of all possible histories of the universe?

We really don't care how many histories there may be that don't contain intelligent beings. We are interested only in the subset of histories in which intelligent life develops. This intelligent life need not be anything like humans. Little green men would do as well. In fact, they might do rather better. The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.

I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular on the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour throughout history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid the survival of the species. Two questions I shall discuss are "What is the probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe?" and "How may life develop in the future?

Segundo algumas teorias, o universo que vivenciamos é apenas uma superfície quadridimensional em um espaço com dez ou onze dimensões. O filme Interestelar dá uma ideia de como isso funcionaria. Nós não veríamos essas dimensões extras porque a luz não se propagaria por elas, mas apenas pelas quatro dimensões do nosso universo.

Como veremos, o conceito de tempo não tem significado antes do início do universo. Isso foi observado pela primeira vez por santo Agostinho. Quando lhe perguntavam "O que Deus fazia antes de criar o universo?", sua resposta não era "Ele estava preparando o inferno para pessoas que fizessem perguntas como essa". Em vez disso, respondia que o tempo era uma propriedade do universo criada por Deus e não existia antes dele. Quando

Stephen's answers to six of the questions are deeply rooted in his science. (Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? How do we shape the future?).

El principio antrópico dice que el universo tiene que ser más o menos como lo vemos, porque si fuera diferente no habría nadie para observarlo.

But physics and astronomy offered the hope of understanding where we came from and why we are here. I wanted to fathom the depths of the universe. Maybe I have succeeded to a small extent, but there's still plenty I want to know.

Dios no solo juega a los dados, a veces los tira donde no se pueden ver.

After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.

The huge questions of existence still remain unanswered—how did life begin on Earth? What is consciousness? Is there anyone out there or are we alone in the universe? These are questions for the next generation to work on.

I think computer viruses should count as life.

You can't get to a time before the Big Bang because there was no time before the Big Bang. We have finally found something that doesn't have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in.

Because everyday could be my last I have the desire to make the most of each and every minute. I try to lead as normal a life l as possible and not think about my condition or regret the thing it prevents me from doing which are not that many .my goal is simple it is complete understanding of the universe. Why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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.

Alam semesta mengembang tidak melenyapkan pencipta, tapi jelas membatasi kapan pencipta bisa melakukan penciptaan!