More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
The huge questions of existence still remain unanswered—how did life begin on Earth? What is consciousness? Is there anyone out there or are we alone in the universe? These are questions for the next generation to work on.
This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time, about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, when they were all at exactly the same place and when, therefore, the density of the universe was infinite.
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
[If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.
Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.
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.
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.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.
