The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.
~ Victor J. Stenger
If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?
~ Etienne Vermeersch
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
~ Julian Huxley
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
~ Edward Witten
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
