Quotes about Hawking

Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988).

We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.

In a sense the debate between Penrose and Hawking is a continuation of that earlier argument, with Penrose playing the role of Einstein and Hawking that of Bohr.

This result was very convenient for Marxist—Leninist dialectical materialism

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.