More quotes by Stephen Hawking

"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."
"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark"
"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?"
"I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."