E. T. Whittaker quotes

E. T. Whittaker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.”
-- E. T. Whittaker

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“If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.”
“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”
“The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”
“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”
“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.”
“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
“The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]”
“You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.”
“Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.”

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