Stephen Hawking Quotes About Boundaries

Quotes about: Boundaries

• So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Self, Long

  "Faith and Reason" with Margaret Wertheim, www.pbs.org. September 11, 1998.

• There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

  Stephen Hawking

  Special, Boundaries, Ought

  "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle". Book by John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler, 1986.

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

  Stephen Hawking

  May, Boundaries, Bad Life

• The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

  Stephen Hawking

  Boundaries, Conditions, Self Contained

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.79, Princeton University Press

• Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

  Stephen Hawking

  Two, Space, Would Be

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

• One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

  Stephen Hawking

  Self, Would Be, Boundaries

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

• In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Space, Law

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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