Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
Stephen HawkingIt would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
Stephen HawkingI think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.
Stephen Hawking