Stephen Hawking Quotes

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

God throws dice, what can I say?

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

God does not play dice.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Life is a school of probability

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

All thoughts emit a throw of dice

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.