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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
- Stephen Hawking (1985) ·
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 that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
- Stephen Hawking (1994) ·
I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already! It could come in the next 20 years, but we might never find it.
- Stephen Hawking (1994) ·
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 image.
- Stephen Hawking (1996) ·
Einstein was confused, not the quantum theory.
- Stephen Hawking (1997) ·
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
- Stephen Hawking (2001) ·
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
- Stephen Hawking (2004) ·
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
- Stephen Hawking (2004) ·
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking (2005) ·
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.
- Stephen Hawking (2006) ·
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.
- Stephen Hawking (2007) ·
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.
- Stephen Hawking (2010) ·
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
- Stephen Hawking (2013) ·
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
- Stephen Hawking (2011) ·
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 underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen Hawking (1988) ·
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 increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can’t have a safer bet than that!
- Stephen Hawking (1988) ·
To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen.
- Stephen Hawking (1996) ·
Mathematics is more than a tool and language for science. It is also an end in itself, and as such, it has, over the centuries, affected our worldview in its own right.