Time Origin Quotes

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

I love existing in pre big bang conditions.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole.

Once upon a time there was no Time.

Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.