So Einstein was wrong when he said, “God does not play dice.” Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.
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.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
It’s the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.
The Universe in a Nutshell.
I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.