God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they… — 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
“The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full… — 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
“[...] Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities… — 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
Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. — 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
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science. — 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
