Human Spirit

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we would know the mind of God.

Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it?

Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner.

Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time