Quotes from Stephen Hawking

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

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.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

What place, then, for a creator?

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.