There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.


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STEPHEN HAWKING
My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the n...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evi...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.
STEPHEN HAWKING
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exi...
STEPHEN HAWKING
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
STEPHEN HAWKING
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason
STEPHEN HAWKING
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is....
STEPHEN HAWKING
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, dir...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
STEPHEN HAWKING
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that expla...
STEPHEN HAWKING
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physic...
STEPHEN HAWKING
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
STEPHEN HAWKING
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand fore...
STEPHEN HAWKING
My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the com...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...
STEPHEN HAWKING
When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sens...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests,...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
It matters if you just don't give up
STEPHEN HAWKING
In such a massive place as the cosmos we only have to look at ourselves for prove that extremely unl...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I put a lot of effort into writing A Briefer History at a time when I was critically ill with pneumo...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was p...
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value
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