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
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
Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these… — 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
