Stephen Hawking

“Women. They are a complete mystery.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“What is important is that we have the ability to create.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Only time – whatever that may be – will tell.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can’t regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don’t wait for me to write a response. I’m shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don’t know.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 immense.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Simplicity is a matter of taste.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.” ~ 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 image.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I’m a child myself, in the sense that I’m still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I’d say I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid He might hear me.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Science makes god unnecessary.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“What lies north of the North Pole?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I think the next century will be the century of complexity.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System – and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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!” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I am damned if I’m going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We won’t know for a few years.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is no unique picture of reality.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Maxwell is the physicist’s physicist.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton’s laws of motion.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 science break down.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I do not believe in a personal God.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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

“Computer viruses are alive.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Why do we remember the past, but not the future?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Physics as we know it will be over in six months – Max Born.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Plagiarism saves time.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist…” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you’re an ass.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I don’t fear God – I fear His believers.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Disability need not be an obstacle to success.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“In my mind, I am free.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Exploration by real people inspires us.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.” ~ 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 because it works.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There are no black holes – in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It’s the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We waste time, so you don’t have to.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It matters if you don’t just give up.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Nothing cannot exist forever.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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

“What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Do you believe in first love – or should I pass by again?” ~ Stephen Hawking

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

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I like physics, but I love cartoons.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Religion believes in miracles, but these aren’t compatible with science.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We explore because we are human.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can’t turn off. I dream equations all night.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.” ~ 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

“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn’t as if he was going to need them.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 in a great flash of light.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We’ve created life in our own image.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“People think I’m a Simpsons character.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“God abhors a naked singularity.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Succeed in spite of management.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I’m here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I’m all out of gum.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 have to act through the laws of physics.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God’s mind works.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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

“If at first you don’t succeed, try management.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“To boldly go where no one has gone before.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We should seek the greatest value of our action.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Being confined to a wheelchair doesn’t bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it’s extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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

“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?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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

“We see the universe the way it is because we exist.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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

“I’m really easy to get along with once you see it my way.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“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 God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“The Universe in a Nutshell.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“You cannot predict the future.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Love the neighbor. But don’t get caught.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“While there is life, there is hope.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“One should love animals. They are so tasty.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.” ~ 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 second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can’t see them.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.” ~ Stephen Hawking