120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

— Sam Harris

A voice said: One. One. One, two. Furthermore, one, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. Furthermore, it had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did.

— Terry Pratchett

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

— George Smoot

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

— Carl Sagan

Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.

— Belinda Bauer

God created… light and dark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter

— Dan Brown

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span When it gathers to egg once more

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang, that was the most creative moment of all.

— Deepak Chopra

Imagine you are in a classroom, and they hand you a test with many interesting multiple choice questions, until you get to “Can you just explain what exactly you believe how the Universe started?” & here are the options. a) The Big Bang b) It’s always been their) God! Or Gods) A bowl of cherries e) I don’t know…. If you choose (a) then what or who & why caused it? & the test continues….. If you choose (b) that would be my choice. If you choose (c) then who, or what created God or Gods? And where do they come from? And if you think they have always been there, the same thing could be said about the universe. If you choose (d) It doesn’t make sense, it is odd, an anomaly, not supposed to be etc. :) if you choose (e) then you are being honest. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing. You can make “assumptions” or “pretending” that you know or a book (bible) “knows” or “tells” you, but I just don’t buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And the test (life) continues with more wonderful questions and experiences :)

— Pablo

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

— John Archibald Wheeler