The teeming seething activity of the vacuum of nothing, and the quantum fluctuations within it were the seeds – seeds which grew into the universe we see today. ibid.
We are simply the debris of a huge annihilation of matter and anti-matter at the beginning of time. ibid.
The second law of thermodynamics and it turned out to be stranger and more beautiful, more universal ... All things that gave off heat were in some way connected together. All things that gave off heat were part of an irreversible process that was happening everywhere. A process of spreading out and dispersing, a process of increasing entropy. It seemed that somehow the universe shared the same fate as a cup of tea. Order and Disorder with Jim Al-Khalili I: Energy, BBC 2012
The universe itself must one day die. ibid.
It was Einstein who provided the theoretical foundations needed to study the universe. Jim Al-Khalili, The Beginning and End of the Universe I, BBC 2016
Once again Einstein dismissed the idea of a dynamic universe. LaMaître’s paper should have ignited science. ibid.
[Fred] Hoyle knew nuclear fusion must hold the answer … Stars could make carbon, and the roadblock was removed. Jim Al-Khalili, The Beginning and End of the Universe II
It changed the way we saw the universe. It inspired everybody whose lives it touched. And it taught a generation to dream. So that for me is its legacy. It is the bridge to all our futures. Kevin Fong, Space Shuttle: The Final Frontier, BBC 2011