There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science… — 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
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
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
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in… — 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
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics… — 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
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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