Stephen Hawking Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Giving Up, Feet

  "Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

• If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.

  Stephen Hawking

  Spring, Way, Ifs

  Stephen Hawking (2013). “My Brief History”, p.16, Bantam

• It is my view that 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. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

  Stephen Hawking

  Motivational, Atheist, Believe

  YouTube Chanel "stepore"/ "Stephen Hawking There is no God. There is no Fate.", www.youtube.com. August 15, 2011.

• I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

  Stephen Hawking

  Dies, Ifs, Universe

• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Creation Of The Universe, Gravity

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, www.npr.org. 2010.

• So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Exercise, People

• All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Way, Whim

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

• One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

  Stephen Hawking

  Perfect, Universe, Perfection

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Natural, Explanation

  "Stephen Hawking to Be Buried at Westminster Abbey, Dean of Church Hails Unity of Science, Religion" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 21, 2018.

• It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Crazy, Space

• The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Eye

  "Reality on the Rocks" ("Beyond Our Ken", 1995), (1995– ).

• The universe doesn't allow perfection.

  Stephen Hawking

  Perfection, Universe

• My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Simple, Goal

  "Stephen Hawking's Universe". Book by John Boslough, 1985.

• While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Understanding, Use

• In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

• The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on...

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Law, Quality

• The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Doe, Surprise

• It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Should Have, Way, Would Be

  "A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes". Book by Stephen Hawking, November 10, 2009.

• 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.

• Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

  Stephen Hawking

  Skills, Careers, Secret

• 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.

• [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stupid, Science, Intelligent

• Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Order, Civilization, People

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

• It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Answers, Reasonable, Asks

  "No Need for God? Stephen Hawking Defies Divine Creation" by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., www.christianpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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