Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.Stephen Hawking
It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.Stephen Hawking
There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.Stephen Hawking
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing in the manner described in Chapter 6.Stephen Hawking
The universe does not have a single history, but every possible history, each with its own probability.Stephen Hawking
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.Stephen Hawking
We seem to be close to the base of a cone of theories, where each theory may have many models.Stephen Hawking
One cannot ask whether the model represents reality, only whether it works.Stephen Hawking
So we may be able to describe the universe without having to appeal to a God.Stephen Hawking
The idea that spatial dimensions can be compactified is central to string theory.Stephen Hawking