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“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
― Stephen Hawking

“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.”
― Stephen Hawking

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”
― Stephen Hawking

“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.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." 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.”
― Stephen Hawking

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.”
― Stephen Hawking

“If aliens ever visit us, 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.”
― stephen hawking

“Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.”
― Stephen W. Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”
― Stephen Hawking

“[...] Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design