On the Origin of Time Quotes

“the universe is a kind of quantum information processor, a vision that appears only a hair’s breadth away from the idea that we live in a simulation.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“quantum information inscribed in an abstract timeless hologram of entangled qubits forms the thread that weaves reality.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“The universe is the way it is because nature has no choice.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“evolution. This reticence would become all the more poignant when, throughout the century, more and more evidence emerged that the universe originated in a way that is strikingly conducive to the evolution of life. In hindsight, Eddington and Einstein could be forgiven for being suspicious!”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we reach the bottom of the cup. This is the first instant, the now which has no yesterday, because, yesterday, there was no space. -- Georges Lemaître”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“A superficial reading of history often appears to offer a causal deterministic explanation for why things happened one way and not another. But a more refined analysis tends to reveal an intricate web of competing forces at crossroads that, together with a great number of accidents, render the road taken far from obvious and certainly not inevitable, forcing one into a description of how, not why.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“His Mysterium Cosmographicum is an attempt, really, to reconcile the ancient Platonic dream of the harmony of the spheres with the sixteenth century’s insight that the planets move around the sun.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“man in his hunt for objective reality suddenly discovered that he always confronts himself alone.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

“anthropic principle”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory