Stephen Hawking Quotes

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.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Pure energy is the father of creation.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

Even in empty space, time and space still exist.

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang - the creation of the universe. That's what I really wanted to work on - the nature of the universe itself, and that's what I do for a living.

The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

We are the creators of our universe.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.