“We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For… — 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
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
“Quantum physics might seem to undermine the idea that nature is governed by laws, but that is not the case. Instead it… — 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
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“if you take a positivist position, as I do, questions about reality don’t have any meaning. All one can ask is whether… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't… — 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
Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond… — 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
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
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?” — 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
