Stephen Hawking

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• Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

  During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)

  • God

• My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

  • Philosophy

• The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

  A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 122

  • Science

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