Quotes by Stephen Hawking

“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 so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own...”

“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street”

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]”

“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didnt exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. Its...”

“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 us something very special.”

“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 a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afte...”

“However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope.”

“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”

“The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.”

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find lov...”

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual app...”

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. Time itself must com...”

“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. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the un...”

“why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead”

“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in...”

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”

“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”

“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor ...”

“The message of this lecture is that black holes aint as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thoughthings can get out of a black hole both on the outside and p...”