The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.
Stephen HawkingThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen HawkingEquations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen HawkingA million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.
Stephen Hawking