Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Stephen Hawking More Quotes by Stephen Hawking More Quotes From Stephen Hawking Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. Stephen Hawking bachelors things-in-life men 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 goal simple science One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator. Stephen Hawking physics law needs I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe. Stephen Hawking space race thinking Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator. Stephen Hawking creator universe needs What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions? Stephen Hawking hell creation people Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. Stephen Hawking civilization order people One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available. Stephen Hawking ocean dark night In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder. Stephen Hawking population lasts years 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 greed stupidity danger I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible. Stephen Hawking evidence time-travel I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum. Stephen Hawking gum ass kicks The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all. Stephen Hawking territory survival may When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break. Stephen Hawking tough coffee naps A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. Stephen Hawking inspirational-office adversity faces Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer. Stephen Hawking may discovery sex 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. Stephen Hawking loss years thinking I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me. Stephen Hawking believe-in-god might believe Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them. Stephen Hawking shoes men mean If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space. Stephen Hawking moon two years
