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I'm posting another quote....
.....So far I have spoken only of what goes on in the natural world; now I must move up to the metaphysical level, by making use of a great though not very widely used principle, which says that nothing comes about without a sufficient reason; i.e. that for any true proposition P, it is possible for someone who understands things well enough to give a sufficient reason why it the case that P rather than not-P. Given that principle, the first question we can fairly ask is: Why is there something rather than nothing? After all, nothing is simpler and easier than something.
..........— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716), German mathematician and philosopher. Principles of Nature and Grace (1714).
Years ago, when I was young and ignorant enough to think that I may have been the first to whom the thought occurred, I said to a minister that it didn't make sense to me that anything at all should exist rather than nothing. He replied that was a stupid statement. I was glad when I discovered I wasn't alone in wondering why something should exist rather than nothing.
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