More quotes by Stephen Hawking

"why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead"
"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."
"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."