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. – Stephen Hawking
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. – Stephen Hawking
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. – Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. – Stephen Hawking
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle