Stephen Hawking Quotes

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”
― Stephen Hawking

“[...] Pierre de la Coste : Comme par exemple Stephen Hawking dans l'un de ces derniers livres dit "j'ai pas besoin de dieu pour expliquer l'univers, il me suffit des lois de la gravitation"

Etienne Klein : Ne me faites pas rire... [...] Il a écrit un livre il y a quelques années qui s'appelle une brève histoire du temps, et c'est toujours le même truc, il fait 180 pages sur la théorie des cordes, puis dernière page, Dieu arrive, on sait pas pourquoi, il arrive comme ça. Dans le premier livre, c'était "bientôt grâce à la théorie des cordes, nous connaîtrons la pensée de Dieu" - On apprend là que Dieu pense... ce qui est en soit une information théologique de première importance..., et puis il y a une espèce de naïveté comme ça à parler de Dieu sans dire que quel Dieu on parle... Et puis là dans le dernier livre que vous citez, effectivement, pareil, 180 pages sur la théorie des cordes... puis dernière page, "finalement, on a pas besoin de Dieu pour créer l'univers, les lois de la gravitation ont suffit pour le faire" - mais vous voyez la naïveté du truc...? Et après ça fait la Une du Times, ça fait la Une de la presse française...

Et prenons le au sérieux, imaginons qu'effectivement, au début entre guillemets, il n'y avait pas d'espace, pas de temps, pas de matière, pas d’énergie, pas de rayonnement, mais il y avait les lois de la gravitation...- Alors les lois de la gravitation sont là, transcendantes, et "pof" elle créent l'univers. ça veut dire que, si vous définissez Dieu comme étant celui qui a créé l'univers, vous devez admettre que les lois de la gravitation c'est Dieu... et à ce moment là, quand vous tombez dans les escaliers, sous l'effet de la gravitation, sans le savoir vous accomplissez une action de grâce... et donc, vous voyez cette naïveté là est quand même coupable [...]
"Les Rendez-vous du futur Étienne Klein [20m45]"”
― Étienne Klein

“Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The primordial state of the Absolute is immaterial, spaceless, and timeless.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The primordial state of the Absolute is absolute potential.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“In its potential, the Absolute is infinite and eternal.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Absolute can only exercise its potential and power in the infinite number of possibilities and universes or worlds it can transform into.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Point” of creation, like a Big Bang, is the passage through Zero between the immaterial, “timeless,” and “spaceless” Absolute into the Universe with space and time and with characteristics of physical reality, which is an illusion. But this illusion is reality, not less realistic for being an illusion.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“There can be no time before the Big Bang, but time and space are logical consequences of our Universe appearing after the Big Bang (or a different event) or any other universe.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The Universe is not material, as we already described in the previous chapters of this book. Hence, the annihilation, real or unreal, is irrelevant because when positive and negative “energy,” if that is the case, cancel each other out, it is not the annihilation of the Universal Source, the Absolute, or its two constituents—the Being and the Nobeing (nothingness). Everything is a program. Cancelling out of the positive and negative “energy” is annihilating the original immaterial program. Simply put, only the “illusion” of the physical world disappears.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Universal Source and universal potential are always beyond space and time and do not abide by human scientific laws. Still, this does not mean that, potentially, humans may not acquire abilities to solve the biggest mysteries within the boundaries of the existing Universe we are aware of or of the much larger Universe this one is only part of. Even the secrets hidden beyond the “point” where time stops may be potentially solved, at least by abstract thinking, which can be a vast and valuable source for the further development and enrichment of scientific laws and humans as a species.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is wrong to use statements such as “there is no south of the South Pole” as proof that there is nothing beyond the point when time stops. Such statements may sound seductive, but they are not scientific, nor do they prove what they try to prove.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is wrong to apply the laws and states of our Universe to the state before the Big Bang if we do not have the slightest idea about the “context” and the state before the Big Bang.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The lack of time and space in our sense of these concepts does not mean that nothing exists beyond the spacetime continuum.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“To state there is no need for a creator or God if there is no time is meaningless. Because the Absolute is beyond time and space as we know them. Absolute is the Source of time and space and, therefore, does not need time to create or recreate itself through the World.

Such statements are not scientific; they are presuppositions and intellectual constructs that serve as fillers for the lack of accurate understanding or a fundamental theory explaining how reality, which is almost incomprehensible to the human mind, functions.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“There are laws of nature. We may describe the laws of nature but still not wholly unravel and understand them to pronounce that scientific laws are equal to natural laws or that they are an absolute representation of natural laws. Scientific laws did not yet cover, describe, and explain all natural laws, mysteries, and secrets.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We cannot hide behind science nor talk in the name of science while proclaiming statements that are not scientific. Such statements are that there is no creator if there is no time. However, this is only a statement a scientist (Stephen Hawking) uses, not a scientific argument or fact with scientific validity. The same goes for the south of the South Pole because such a statement is a logical fallacy based on the presupposition that there is nothing south of the South Pole, meaning there is absolutely nothing beyond some point of the material World, which is only a presupposition and not a scientific or natural law. Such statements may sound like analytic or logical propositions. Still, these are not analytic or logical propositions but methods or tricks to cover up the loopholes of scientific knowledge and understanding with dogmatic statements.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Science must be antidogmatic. Only the church can be dogmatic. It would be better for the church to become more scientific and less dogmatic to better understand what God is before representing something created by man, not by God, in words written by man, not by God.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Science is a human construct. Scientific laws are as valid as our understanding at any particular moment. Scientific laws are not absolute. Scientific laws wear human colors. Regardless of how close we got to the truth, the scientific laws are still not 100% accurate and complete. If we do not possess absolute truth, then scientific laws cannot be final, or they may be representative of the truth up to the level of our knowledge and understanding, not more.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“We may accept the idea that natural laws govern everything in the Universe and that these laws are in some way absolute. Still, we cannot hide behind scientific laws before explaining them. According to Hawking, scientific laws may be enough for our understanding of the World. His implicit message is that the Creator is not needed. Such statements could have been valid if scientific laws were absolute and scientists, including Hawking, resolved the mystery of existence, the Universe, and the origin and future of everything. Since that is not the case, no scientist can replace the idea of the Creator just by insufficient scientific knowledge. Only a scientist or scientists (or anybody) with absolute knowledge can dethrone the Creator if there is such complete knowledge (scientific or otherwise), proving that there is nothing beyond the “point” where time stops. Unfortunately, this kind of knowledge and understanding does not yet exist. The purpose of science is not to push the Creator out of the picture but to improve, define, and redefine scientific laws in its pursuit of truth.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“One of the tasks of science is to redefine the word and concept of God so that we can come up with an approximate idea about what God is, at least in scientific and academic communities. For instance, the Absolute (Universal Mind) is the Source of Everything, and it exists regardless of whether time stops at some “point” and irrespective of the no-boundary proposal. The no-boundary proposal is one of the biggest boundaries to the science ever produced in history because it tries to impose the limitations of a particular human mind onto the whole Universe and beyond and declare this limitation, boundary, to be a scientific law.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We must redefine and come to a consensus on what God (Creator) is and what creation and recreating is. When we do this, we may make the gap between believers and atheists smaller, and we may realize that faith and atheism are compatible. The major incompatibility comes from the preprogrammed thinking and concepts based on religious books. Most of these concepts humanity accepted without real consideration and analysis, betting on the idea of a God that I call the stolen God. A stolen God is not a “real” God and cannot be used against the “real” God if it exists. The idea of a stolen God gains most of its power from the fear of millions or billions of human beings belonging to the major monotheistic religions.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Based on my theory, the Absolute, Supreme Being consists of the Being and the Nonbeing. The Being is part of the Absolute and is not absolute, but the Being is that which was traditionally considered God. The creation of the World is almost equally contingent upon the Being as it is upon the Nonbeing (nothingness). Not only can God not be omnipotent without the Nonbeing or absolute void, but the World’s creation depends almost equally upon these two poles of the Absolute. The Being is the positive pole of the Absolute, and the Nonbeing is the negative. Zero (0) is the wormhole between the Absolute immaterial realm of reality and material reality or the Universe. The Zero, as such, is the Source of Potential Infinity, the Perpetual Motion Machine of Existence, and, in a way, the Absolute itself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The Creation of the World or Omniverse is the Creation or Recreation of the Absolute itself through the two poles, two “sides” of its Self, the Being and the Nonbeing. Without the creating, everything is the Nonbeing. Creating is the Savior of the Absolute and the Being. Otherwise, everything transforms into absolute Nothingness or Nonbeing. Since creating is the recreation of the Creator, it is the activation of the absolute potential to recreate itself in a new way.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“No time or space exists beyond the Universe and “physical” World.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The spacetime continuum is the worldly reality.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Zero is Absolute

+ = B (the Being or God)

– = N (the Nonbeing or Nothingness)

+ – (Being-Nonbeing) = 0 (the Absolute)

At the moment of creation, the Being envelopes the Nonbeing and transforms into the World through the wormhole of Zero. That is the creation of the World or “partial” transformation of the metaphysical into “physical,” although the physical is only an appearance (illusion).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Zero is Absolute Potential

In the metaphysical state:

Zero is the present.

Zero is the representation of the infinite and the eternal.

Zero is the passage from the metaphysical to the “physical” realm at the moment of creation. At this point, the infinite and eternal transform into the categories of the spacetime world.

Zero is also a passage from the past to the future. At this point, the present stops because the present is eternal. The present is only a passage from the past to the future and is only possible in spacetime.

How we see and perceive past and future, or time in a physical sense, exists only in the physical World. Beyond this World is a metaphysical World where there is no spacetime continuum. At this point, time stops.

When the spacetime continuum stops or disappears, past and future disappear, and all past and future are in an absolute Zero as Absolute Potential. All time and space are in Absolute Zero, which is infinite and eternal. Only this Absolute Zero beyond the spacetime continuum is absolute time, which is present, and absolute space, which is nothingness.

Zero in the metaphysical realm is Potential. We may call it, conditionally, passive Zero.
Zero in the spacetime realm is active Zero. In this realm, the present is only a passage from the past to the future. When time stops, it becomes absolute present, which is absolute time or eternity. The Source of all time and space is beyond time and space.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“[Stephen] Hawking: Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude— I would paraphrase Goering—is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun.”
― Timothy Ferris, The Whole She Bang

“Será tonto del agujero negro…—Qué insulto tan científico. Me parece fabuloso.—Apuesto a que se expresa en Fahrenheit…—Uf, no te pases.—… y que en sus los ratos libres va a la Abadía de Westminster para bailar sobre la tumba de Stephen Hawking…—¿¡ Hawking ha muerto!?—… y ni siquiera se molestará en llamar a Greg para pedirle explicaciones, porque es un sádico, un egoísta y un ignorante de mie…”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically