Stephen Hawking

It matters if you just don't give up.

Work like hell a hundred times harder, and you'll still only be half-way there.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Black holes ain't so black.

The boundary conditions of the universe are not known, but physics tells us that the universe must have had a beginning.

Time and space, in a modern view, really are different from what they were in Newton's time.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

In less than a hundred years we discovered a multiplicity of Tales of baffling complexity.

The progress of science depends on new theories, but also on the willingness to discard old ones.

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate.

We should seek the greatest value of our action if we want to live a meaningful life.

The idea that God might want to change his mind is an interesting idea.

Most sets of values are like the rules of a game: they are good to have, but you can still play the game without them.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.

If you are disabled, it is quite likely that you will have to fight your whole life to live in a world that expects ordinary people.

Science will win because it works.