Stephen Hawking - The Grand Design (2010)

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The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

Stephen Hawking

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.

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Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.

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If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

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It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

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