Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" Quotes Archives - Famous Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

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, "A Brief History of Time"

God abhors a naked singularity.
—Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time"

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.
—Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time"

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?
—Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time"

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
—Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time"