Exploration By Real People Inspires Us.

When I Was First Diagnosed With Als, I Was Given Two Years To Live. Now 45 Years Later, I Am Doing Pretty Well.

If Human Life Were Long Enough To Find The Ultimate Theory, Everything Would Have Been Solved By Previous Generations. Nothing Would Be Left To Be Discovered.

We Find Ourselves In A Bewildering World. We Want To Make Sense Of What We See Around Us And To Ask: What Is The Nature Of The Universe? What Is Our Place In It And Where Did It And We Come From? Why Is It The Way It Is?

I Have Sold More Books On Physics Than Madonna Has On Sex. [hawking Adopted This Statement From A Remark Made To Him By His Former Post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]

To My Mathematical Brain, The Numbers Alone Make Thinking About Aliens Perfectly Rational.