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“If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?”
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“Someday, you little twat, it's going to be more than that. The way we start doesn't have to be where we end up.”
― The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky
― The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky
“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.”
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“It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.”
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“The realization that time can behave like another direction of space means one can get rid of the problem of time having a beginning, in a similar way in which we got rid of the edge of the world.
Suppose the beginning of the universe was like the South Pole of the earth, with degrees of latitude playing the role of time.
As one moves north, the circles of constant latitude, representing the size of the universe, would expand. The universe would start as a point at the South Pole, but the South Pole is much like any other point.
To ask what happened before the beginning of the universe would become a meaningless question, because there is nothing south of the South Pole.”
― The Grand Design
Suppose the beginning of the universe was like the South Pole of the earth, with degrees of latitude playing the role of time.
As one moves north, the circles of constant latitude, representing the size of the universe, would expand. The universe would start as a point at the South Pole, but the South Pole is much like any other point.
To ask what happened before the beginning of the universe would become a meaningless question, because there is nothing south of the South Pole.”
― The Grand Design
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