"The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the...












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"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be ...
"Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continu...
"There should be no boundary to human endeavor.
"God abhors a naked singularity.
"Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the outcome of...
"Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensio...
"The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science s...