Stephen Hawking Way Quotations

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

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.

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

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.

We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.

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

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.