Stephen Hawking — "Some people say I have a chip on my shoulder but it is actually my chin."

"I have no idea what the future holds, but I'm optimistic."

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we…"

"People think I'm really smart. But when people ask me a question I type in the answer on my little computer screen. How do you know I am not just googling that shit before I answer?"

"We are all time-travelers, heading into the future at the rate of one second per second."

"I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterli…"