[T]here is no ether at all. This is now the received wisdom following Einstein’s work ….

The existence of time is a mystery. There is no use for it.

In more conventional quantum mechanical terms, we would say that the Universe is the result of a quantum mechanical tunneling process, where it must be interpreted as having tunnelled from nothing at all.

A major extension of physics will be necessary to delve into the first 10-43 second and follow the history of the universe in those first quantum moments when it was entirely shrouded in mystery.

The traditional view that initial conditions are for the theologians and evolution equations for the physicists seems to have been overthrown―at least temporarily.

The study of the Wave Function of the Universe is in its infancy. It will undoubtedly change in many ways before it is done.

What we really want is some principle that tells us why the organization of the Universe changes in the way that it does: why it now expands so uniformly and isotropically.

The question of why the Universe is as it is, is inextricably linked to that of why fundamental physics is the way that it is.

(E)lementary particles come in populations of universally identical particles.