[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper… — 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… — 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… — 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:… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. — 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