More quotes by Stephen Hawking

"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"
"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."
"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."