Stephen Hawking Quotes

Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love. We are all time travellers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.

The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.

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 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 complete description of the universe we live in.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

I realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose’s theorem so that the collapse became an expansion, the conditions of his theorem would still hold, provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first

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

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

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 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?