Beginning of The Universe and Life
- Abiogenesis, the study of how life on Earth arose from inanimate matter
- Cosmogony, any theory concerning the origin of the universe
- Cosmology, the study of the universe and humanity's place in it
- Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it
- Genesis creation narrative, creation as described in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis in the Bible
- Creatio ex nihilo, Latin for "creation out of nothing", a phrase used in philosophical and theological contexts
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—John Hersey (1914–1993)
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Joan Didion (b. 1934)