“ Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a com… Stephen Hawking
“ …only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: “Why is the universe the way we see it?” The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, w… 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 swear to use my scientific knowledge for the good of Humanity. I promise never to harm any person in my search for enlightenment.I shall be courageous and careful in my quest for greater knowledge a… Stephen Hawking
“ The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once though…things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and po… Stephen Hawking
“ There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While there’s life, there is hope. Stephen Hawking
“ . . .a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, "real" or "imaginary" time? It is s… Stephen Hawking
“ The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them Stephen Hawking
“ Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still… 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 universe have a beginning? However, in th… Stephen Hawking
“ 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 come… Stephen Hawking
“ When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s… Stephen Hawking
