One Liners from Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple: to understand the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I haven't known any mathematicians who could reason

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 think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

It is not clear if intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would half the sales.

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

Events do not happen in an arbitrary manner. They seem to reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.