If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I… — 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
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet. — 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 Image
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image