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The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.
My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.
Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?
There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces
I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them.
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.