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Law Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all…
- 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…
- The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more…
- 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…
- I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
- Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.
- Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder…
- In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are…
- In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of…
- The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
- There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- 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.…
- The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.
- Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the…
- 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…
- There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human…
More Law Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson