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Quotations by author » Stephen Hawking
English Physicist, b.1942
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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?
Science
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.
Science
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Optimism
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Uncategorized
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.
MankindUnderstandingUniverse
When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didnīt reply, 'he was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.' Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.
GodTime
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have
AppreciationExpectation
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