Cosmology quotes

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

According to ‚M‘ theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, ‚M‘ theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

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.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.