Astronomy Quote by Stephen Hawking

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

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

— Stephen Hawking

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

— Stephen Hawking

“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

[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

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

— Stephen Hawking

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

— Stephen Hawking

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

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

“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

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