I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe.” — 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
If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations… — 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
According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist…Without imperfection, neither you nor I… — 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
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see… — 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
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
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century,… — 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
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 the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch. — 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… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about… — 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
“Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists… — 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
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