{"quotes":[{"text":"Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["acausal","big-bang","cosmology","laws-of-nature","nobel-laureate","origin-of-the-universe","origin-of-universe","physical-law","physics","quantum-cosmology","quantum-fluctuations","quantum-mechanics"],"id":16796,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.","author":"Victor J. Stenger","tags":["atheism","big-bang-theory","cosmology","explanation","god","god-of-the-gaps","ignorance","knowledge","naturalism","nature","origin-of-the-universe","science","the-big-bang"],"id":137990,"author_id":"Victor+J.+Stenger"},{"text":"If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?","author":"Etienne Vermeersch","tags":["antitheism","argument-against-theism","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","existence","first-cause","first-cause-argument-debunked","infinite","materialism","naturalism","origin-of-the-universe","origin-of-universe","philosophy","special-pleading","special-pleading-fallacy","universe"],"id":382987,"author_id":"Etienne+Vermeersch"},{"text":"It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.","author":"Julian Huxley","tags":["matter","origin-of-the-universe","philosophy","science","something-from-nothing","space"],"id":449638,"author_id":"Julian+Huxley"},{"text":"String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.","author":"Edward Witten","tags":["big-bang","description","elementary-particles","gravity","institute-for-advanced-study","laws-of-nature","m-theory","materialism","naturalism","nature","origin-of-the-universe","origin-of-universe","particle-physics","physics","science","string-theory"],"id":458095,"author_id":"Edward+Witten"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}