“Doubtless there is a desire in human beings to exist everywhere in space, but there seems to be a much stronger desire to exist everywhere in time, or at least in future time.” LifeScienceDesireTimeUniverseSpaceFuture Book:The Ultimate Fate of the Universe Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
“There is very little hope for life of any kind surviving the big crunch in a closed universe. However, one cannot be dogmatic about this as one does not know the limits of human ingenuity. If indeed the universe is closed, we probably have tens of billions of years to think about how to survive the big crunch, if it is not against the laws of nature that something should survive.” LifeUniverseNatureSurvivalHumanCosmologyBig Crunch Book:The Ultimate Fate of the Universe Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
“If the standard model is correct, the universe started in a state of high density and temperature, with all matter and radiation forming one great continuous mass. It is very remarkable that this undifferentiated soup should have the intrinsic property that in due course of time it develops into galaxies of which at least one creates life with such staggering complexity, subtlety and diversity and often such stunning beauty. It also creates thinking and feeling beings which in turn can contemplate the universe and study its properties and which can love and hate.” LifeScienceUniverseCosmologyBig BangConciousness Book:The Ultimate Fate of the Universe Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
“It is perhaps worth noticing that we have arrived 'on the scene' at a fairly early date. By this I mean that the time scale that it has taken nature to create us is of the same order of magnitude as the age of the universe. The universe is about 10-15 billion years old, and the Earth about 4.5 billion years old. Life is supposed to have begun on Earth about 3 billion years ago. It would not have been possible to evolve life, because of the hostile conditions, in the first few billion years after the big bang. Thus we have been created almost as soon as the universe was in a position to create us. It is an interesting question how long the universe will continue to create entirely new forms of life, assuming that it is open.” LifeUniverseCreationPerfectionCosmosCosmology Book:The Ultimate Fate of the Universe Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe