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God Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
- What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think…
- One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would…
- As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine.…
- One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there…
- The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of…
- I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by…
- We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow…
- It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who…
- Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If…
- God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.
- So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist…
- What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?
- Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
- What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God.…
- Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain…
- Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put…
- What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science.…
- God abhors a naked singularity.
- So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but…
- I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to…
- Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something…
- We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
- The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi