It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.
Stephen HawkingI have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen HawkingThe universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on...
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 Hawking