If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street. — 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
There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation. — 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
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal… — 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
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
If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on… — 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
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ...… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one… — 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
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in… — 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
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