Stephen Hawking Quotes

God does not play dice.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

What God hath wrought?

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Man plans, but God decides.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

Depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature