I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

— Stephen Hawking

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

— Stephen Hawking

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

— Stephen Hawking

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

— Stephen Hawking

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

— Stephen Hawking

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

— Stephen Hawking

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

— Stephen Hawking