More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.
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.
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.
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 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.
Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.
I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
