Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
Stephen HawkingThe "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
Stephen HawkingAll that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
Stephen Hawking