There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Once upon a time when there was no time.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.