Stephen Hawking Quotes

• I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Computer, Work

  Tags in Afraid, Afterlife

• Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Universe

• I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

• God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Goal, Humanity

  Tags in Universe, Desire

• We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Life

• I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in God

• One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in God

  Tags in Prove

• Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Love, Wisdom

  Tags in Science

• Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Science

• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Advanced, Science

• To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimism

• The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in History

  Tags in Science

• 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?

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Included

• One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Argue, Mathematical

• Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in God

  Tags in Play

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understanding

Stephen Hawking (30)

Birth:	8th January, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Cosmologist, Physicist

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