"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" - Stephen Hawking
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." - Stephen Hawking
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." - Stephen Hawking
"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
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking
"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales." - Stephen Hawking
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" - Stephen Hawking
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired." - Stephen Hawking
"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature." - Stephen Hawking
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." - Stephen Hawking
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." - Stephen Hawking
