It 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.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.