Stephen Hawking Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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

• It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

  Stephen Hawking

  Intelligent, Long, Intelligence

  "Life in the Universe" by Stephen Hawking, www.hawking.org.uk. 1996.

• The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Numbers, Fundamentals

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

• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  Stephen Hawking

  Good Life, Science, Our Actions

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

• Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Giving, Might

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.106, Random House

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Quality, Different, Knows

  Austin American-Statesman, October 19, 1997.

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