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Stephen Hawking

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Stephen Hawking

Science

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Science uses math to explain how the universe works, but it doesn't explain why the universe exists in the first place. The question of why there is something rather than nothing goes beyond what scientific models can address.

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