Some Stephen Hawking Quotes

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star..."
--Hawking putting human existence in perspective in Der Spiegel

"...But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
--Hawking make us feel a little better again, in the same interview

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing..."
--Hawking in an except from his new book The Grand Design, on why God might not exist.

"I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space."
--Hawking arguing that mankind must take to the stars to continue to survive as a species. (See some of mankind's greatest explorations and adventures.)

"I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Talk about creating life in our own image."

--Hawking on life and man's true nature