If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

In such a massive place as the cosmos we only have to look at ourselves for prove that extremely unlikely things can and do happen all the time

When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.' Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.