Paul Davies Quotes

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

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

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

Everything in the universe has a purpose.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened before the big bang?

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so finely tuned.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.