I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on… — 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
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