The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — 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
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“... if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation."… — 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
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. — 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