"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
― Stephen Hawking
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Beauty
More From Stephen Hawking
- "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
- "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."
- "The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract."
More In Beauty
- "Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance."― Max Bill
- "I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."― Studs Terkel
- "Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."― Dante Alighieri