To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of… — 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
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, 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
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