Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.