Stephen Hawking Quotes

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

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?

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?"

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.

All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

Time was God's first creation.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

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

I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

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.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

The Ultimate Mystery: Why the universe ever existed at all.

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.

Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.