Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen HawkingWe could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
Stephen HawkingThis required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth
Stephen Hawking