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We are all different — but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt — and survive.
Hawking (2013)
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.
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
A Brief History of Time (1988)
With current technology interstellar travel is utterly impractical. Alpha Centauri can never become a holiday destination.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018)
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Foreword to The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss (2007)
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?
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986)
Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
It's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction, but this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018)
Someone said imagine that CERN (where the World Wide Web was invented for particle physics) had one penny for each use, then particle physics would have all the funding it could use.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
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.
To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen.
The Beginning of Time (1996)
Arguably the third industrial revolution was triggered by the invention of the World Wide Web at CERN.
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Black holes ain't as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole, both to the outside, and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.
Reith Lecture 2 : Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted (2015)
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's Universe (1985)
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
Mathematics is more than a tool and language for science. It is also an end in itself, and as such, it has, over the centuries, affected our worldview in its own right.
God Created the Integers (2007)
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.