More quotes by Stephen Hawking

"I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark"
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]"
"why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead"
"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
"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."