If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch -… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe.” — 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
