{"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":"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":"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":3,"pages":1}}