Stephen Hawking Quotes

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going.

My handwriting was the despair of my teachers. But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein.

Without imperfection, neither you or I would exist.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.