My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

More from Stephen Hawking

• God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
• It matters if you just don't give up.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!