Quotes from Stephen Hawking

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

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

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

Plagiarism saves time.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.