More quotes by Stephen Hawking

"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."
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
"[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth."
"I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street"