We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“In the early universe—when the universe was small enough to be governed by both general relativity and quantum theory—there were effectively four… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The earth was initially very hot and without an atmosphere. In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“time and space are intertwined. It is something like adding a fourth direction of future/past to the usual left/right, forward/backward, and up/down.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way… — 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
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space. — 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
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions. — 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
