"A Brief History of Time" Quotes
Stephen Hawking explores the universe and the nature of time in a concise and accessible manner.
science | 212 pages | Published in 1988
Quotes
We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.
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.
The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary also has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe.
In the past, people were born, lived and died in the same locality.
One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past.
The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the 20th century.
The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
We find ourselves in a bewildering world.
