If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way. — 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
Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely… — 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… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't… — 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
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
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to… — 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
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
Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his… — 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
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict… — 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 everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a… — 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
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
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
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