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| All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion | | God; Universe | |
| 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? | | Uncategorized | |
| God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. | | Uncategorized | |
| However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| I put a lot of effort into writing A Briefer History at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Computers | |
| If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone . . . . Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we find the answer [the unified theory], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for we would know the mind of God." | | Uncategorized | |
| It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Marilyn. Newton seems to have been an unpleasant character. | | Uncategorized | |
| Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. | | Universe | |
| My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. | | Goals | |
| Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. | | Chance; God | |
| Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. | | Uncategorized | |
| The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he canīt lift it? | | God | |
