There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. BarrowWe can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
John D. BarrowWe are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
John D. BarrowOne would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gรถdels theorem not only demonstrates that meathematics is a religion, but shows that mathematics is the only religion that proves itself to be one!
John D. Barrow