I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that a... - Stephen Hawking
"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark"
"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark"
"I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful."
"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
"I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people."