Quotes: Hawking Says God Didn’t Flip a Switch After All

REUTERS / Mike Hutchings
REUTERS / Mike Hutchings

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing…”

–Physicist STEPHEN HAWKING, from his upcoming book The Grand Design, stating his view on why it is not necessarily true that a creator is responsible for our existence.

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