More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
[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.
It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.
Disability need not be an obstacle to success.
The twentieth century saw man's view of the universe transformed: we realized the insignificance of our planet in the vastness of the universe, and we discovered that time and space we curved and inseparable , that the universe was expanding, and that it had a beginning in time.
What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.
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.
If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.
I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe.
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
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.
