There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“Empedocles noticed that if you cover the neck before you immerse it, a clepsydra does not fill. He reasoned that something invisible must be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
