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
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
We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers… — 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
If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. — 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
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But… — 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
The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason… — 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
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. — 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
