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Science Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic…
- 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…
- Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
- 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…
- I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
- Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,…
- Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.
- Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
- 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…
- Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
- Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.
- There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish…
- I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
- More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
- Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.
- The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
- We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes…
- I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created…
- Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
- My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
- 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…
- Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp…
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
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