"The ideas that prove to be of lasting interest are likely to build on the framework of the now standard world picture…"

"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utter…"

"In vain would one expect an answer from natural science, which indeed loyally declares that it is faced with an insol…"

"In the beginning there was an explosion. Not an explosion like those familiar on earth, starting from a definite cent…"

"This circumstance of an expanding universe is irritating."

"To admit such possibilities seems senseless to me."

"Bothers science because it clashes with scientific religion—the religion of cause and effect, the belief that every e…"

"Ten or twenty billion years ago, something happened—the Big Bang, the event that began our universe. Why it happened …"

"The discovery of the Big Bang and the recession of the galaxies came from a commonplace of nature called the Doppler …"

"The first, and main, problem is the very existence of the big bang."