“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could… — 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 life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere… — 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
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you… — 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
