Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
However difficult life may be seem,there is always something you can do and succeed at. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get… — 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
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
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on… — 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
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ...… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never… — 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
