Top 66 Quotes About The Universe By Stephen Hawking

#1. The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

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#2. Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

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#3. What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

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#4. In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

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#5. [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.

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#6. According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

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#7. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

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

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#9. If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

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#10. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.

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

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#12. Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:

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#13. 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.

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#14. We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

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#15. In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

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#16. The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

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#17. Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that both is tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration. That is not easily explained, and raises the natural question of why it is that way.

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#20. One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

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#21. What did God do before he created the universe?

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#22. The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.

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#23. Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

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#24. 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

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#25. I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

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#26. It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

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#27. The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.

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#28. No boundary condition: The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time).

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#29. The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

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#30. There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

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#31. Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?

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#32. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence? Or does it need a creator, and, if so, does he have any other effect on the universe? And who created him?

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#33. Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

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#34. I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

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#35. I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

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#36. Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

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#37. As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: "What did God do before he created the universe?" Augustine didn't reply: "He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.

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#38. If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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#39. Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

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#40. 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

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#41. But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created.

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#42. You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

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#43. All the known particles in the universe can be divided into two groups: particles of spin ½, which make up the matter in the universe, and particles of spin 0, 1, and 2, which, as we shall see, give rise to forces between the matter particles.

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#44. The most important point: that the universe is governed by a set of rational laws that we can discover and understand.

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#45. The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.

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

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

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#48. The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see.

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#49. Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

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#50. Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

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#51. The microwave background indicated that the universe had had a hot, dense stage in the past.

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#52. We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.

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#53. All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

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#54. 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

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#55. Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

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#56. Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.

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#57. The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

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#58. Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities ... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

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#59. The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

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#60. 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.

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#61. Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.

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#62. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

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#63. Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation." "What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is we would know everything that God would know if there was a God, but there isn't. I'm an atheist.

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#64. If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

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#65. Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance;

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#66. The universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

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