In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“the most important point: that the universe is governed by a set of rational laws that we can discover and understand.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Roger Penrose and I showed that Einstein’s general theory of relativity implied that the universe must have a beginning and, possibly, an… — 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
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — 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
