Quotessence
Home / Authors / Victor J. Stenger
Victor J. Stenger

Victor J. Stenger Quotes

Physicist

Filter quotes by topic

AllAtheismReligionUniversePositive AtheismCosmologyIfsPhysicsScienceGodThe Big BangBeliefExistenceFactsScientistBig Bang TheoryEvidenceExplanationQuantumDataEarth

Famous Victor J. Stenger Quotes

“The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.”

GodUniverseSpaceAtheismCreationPhysicsCosmosCosmologyNew AtheismBig Bang TheoryThe Big BangOccams Razor
Book:God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Create image

“The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.”

GodScienceNatureKnowledgeAtheismIgnoranceExplanationCosmologyNaturalismBig Bang TheoryThe Big BangOrigin Of The UniverseGod Of The Gaps
Book:God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Create image

“As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." ... In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”

GodReligionExistenceAtheismPhysicsSkepticismMiraclesCosmologyNaturalismDivine InterventionNew AtheismBig Bang TheorySupernaturalismThe Big BangSomething From Nothing
Book:God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Create image

“Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.”

GodScienceReligionNatureAtheismPhysicsLaws Of NatureCosmologyNew AtheismFine TuningThe Big Bang
Book:God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Create image