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Big Bang Quotes

On cosmic origins and wonder about the universe.

These big bang quotes mix genuine curiosity about the universe's start with a lighter reference to the television show that borrowed its name. See our Creation quotes for related themes.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump out of my skin.

Quotes by Abby Lee Miller

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot...

Quotes by Stephen Merchant

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let...

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why...

Quotes by Sean M. Carroll

Creation Quotes

We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That's not a hard thing to know. But...

Quotes by Sean M. Carroll

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to...

Quotes by Saul Perlmutter

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.

Quotes by Robert Lanza

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

Quotes by Rob Walton

In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her...

Quotes by Peter York

Explosion Quotes

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

Quotes by Paul Davies

All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from...

Quotes by Paul Broun

In the guest star situation on a show, it has a feel of a foreign exchange student - you're worrying the night before where you're going to sit for lunch. 'The Big Bang Theory' was like that. I was supposed...

Quotes by Melissa Rauch

When we first started 'The Big Bang Theory,' I would get incredibly nervous because it's such a big show and I was just out of graduate school. I'd come in and have this huge responsibility for the one line that...

Quotes by Kunal Nayyar

I had done enough TV stuff before 'The Big Bang Theory.' I had done enough to sort of appreciate how awesome everybody is on 'The Big Bang Theory,' how nice and cool everybody is.

Quotes by Kevin Sussman

Mystery Quotes

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

Quotes by Karl Pilkington

The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, stars implode, and they build heavier elements out...

Quotes by John Rhys-Davies

Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were...

Quotes by John C. Mather

It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever...

Quotes by John C. Mather

People know what 'Hedwig' is now, and that's wonderful. It's not the same as being swamped for being on 'The Big Bang Theory,' but it's much more comfortable.

Quotes by John Cameron Mitchell

Origin Quotes

'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Quotes by Jim Parsons

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Frequently Asked Questions

What angles do these big bang quotes take?
Genuine curiosity about cosmic origins, real physics detail, and a lighter nod to the sitcom sharing the name.
Is there a quote questioning how the universe began?
Yes, one wonders whether the beginning only seemed enormous because nothing else existed to compare it to at the time.
Does any quote get into actual physics?
One does, comparing leftover cosmic radiation to the weak heat produced by a household microwave oven.
Is there a reference to a television show?
Yes, one recalls the nervous excitement of guest starring on a popular sitcom named after the cosmic event.
What topic pairs well with this one?
Our Origin quotes explore beginnings from a broader angle beyond cosmology.

One line even gets scientific, comparing leftover cosmic radiation to the weak heat of a microwave oven. Read on with our Mystery and Origin quotes.