The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us. - Stephen Hawking

The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see.

The Steady State theory was what Karl Popper would call a good scientific theory: it made definite predictions, which could be tested by observation, and possibly falsified. Unfortunately for the theory, they were falsified.

So Hamlet was quite right. We could be bounded in a nutshell and count ourselves kings of infinite space.