Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.