User:Raasgat
"The problem with explaining how this universe came to be, is that we can't begin to imagine the structure of an explanation that would satisfy - we are rooted in our notions of time and space; they underpin everything we know about this world and to admit that they could be flawed or altogether wrong, boggles the mind. In our experience everything has a beginning, whence our desperate step of inventing a Big Bang and claiming that time had no meaning before that."
"God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time -- life and death -- stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out." --- Richard Feynman
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time". --- Terry Pratchett
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". --- Albert Einstein
