"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..."
- 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