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

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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

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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

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