Quotes About Cosmology

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Individuals who take this route, this alternative to nihilism and totalitarianism, must therefore produce their own cosmology of values.

the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun.

it is natural to equate the light of Genesis with the electromagnetic radiation accompanying the primordial fireball of the Big Bang

The laws of relativity are clear on this point. If you could move at the speed of light, you would see all of space shrink to a single point, and all of time collapse to an instant. In the reference frame of light, there is no space and time.

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.

Inside every black hole that collapses may lie the seeds of a new expanding universe.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.

Black, in Egyptian cosmology, was the color of fertility and life everlasting—the color of good, rich soil without which there is no survival.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Whatever ignorance, pride or fanaticism may suggest to the contrary, Esoteric Cosmology can be shown inseparably connected with both philosophy and modern science. The gods of the ancients, the monads--from Pythagoras down to Leibnitz--and the atoms of the present materialistic school (as borrowed by them from the theories of the old Greek Atomists) are only a compound unit, or a graduated unity like the human frame, which begins with body and ends with spirit.

We, of course, have the advantage of hindsight. Who can say which of today's widely repeated seeming truisms about the big bang, string theory, or the universe's origins will seem ludicrous a century hence?

I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with.

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.