Quotes About Existence

people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

The laws of physics demand the existence of something called 'negative energy'.

Thus the very fact that we exist as beings that can ask the question "Why is the universe the way it is?" is a restriction on the history we live in. It implies it is one of the minority of histories that have galaxies and stars. This is an example of what is called the Anthropic Principle. The Anthropic Principle says that the universe has to be more or less as we see it, because if it were different there wouldn't be anyone here to observe it.

If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.

Stephen Hawking

Pada waktu itu, kecuali kita sudah ke luar Tata Surya, umat manusia akan telah lama punah, musnah bersama-sama Matahari kita!

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

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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.

Mungkin saja ada antidunia dan antimanusia yang terbuat dari antizadah. Tapi kalau Anda bertemu anti-Anda, jangan berjabat tangan! Kalian berdua bakal lenyap menjadi kilatan cahaya.

Paus bilang kepada kami bahwa mempelajari perkembangan alam semesta sesudah Ledakan Besar itu boleh-boleh saja, tapi kami sebaiknya tak mencari tahu mengenai Ledakan Besar karena itulah saat Penciptaan yang merupakan karya Tuhan.

I think that there is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around today, always presuming we don't blow ourselves up first.

I am uncomfortably, acutely aware of the passage of time, and have lived much of my life with a sense that the time that I have been granted is, as they say, borrowed.

por completa que sea nuestra observación del presente, el pasado (no observado) y el futuro son indefinidos y sólo existen como un espectro de posibilidades.

Nous menons notre vie sans quotidienne sans presque rien comprendre au monde qui est le nôtre.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. Stephen Hawking

However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we would know the mind of God.

La mayoría de las constantes fundamentales que aparecen en las teorías están ajustadas con tanta precisión que si su valor cambiara aunque sólo fuera ligeramente el universo sería cualitativamente diferente, y en la mayoría de los casos resultaría inadecuado para el desarrollo de la vida.

Belli ki Tanr? yaln?zca zar atmakla kalm?yor,ayr?ca gözleri kapal? oynuyor ve ara s?ra da zarlar? görülemeyecek yerlere at?yor.

Tant que l'Univers débute à une singularité, on peut supposer qu'il a été créé par une entité extérieure. Mais si l'Univers est complètement autonome, sans frontière ni bord, il ne peut être ni créé ni détruit. Il est, tout simplement. Et dans ce cas, quelle serait la place de Dieu ?

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

Matter is the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God as well, are just words that express the wondrous results of neuronal complexity.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.