“Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.”
Letter to Max Born (4 December 1926); The Born-Einstein Letters (translated by Irene Born) (Walker and Company, New York, 1971) <!-- p. 90 --> .<br>Einstein himself used variants of this quote at other times. For example, in a 1943 conversation with William Hermanns recorded in Hermanns' book Einstein and the Poet, Einstein said: "As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world." ( p. 58 http://books.google.com/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false) <br class="br">1920s <br class="br">Context: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
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Stephen Hawking book The Nature of Space and Time
During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 http://books.google.com/books?id=LstaQTXP65cC&lpg=PA26&dq=hawking%20%22where%20they%20can't%20be%20seen%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=&f=false and also in "The Nature of Space and Time" (online text) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409195<br>Unsourced variants: Not only does God play dice with the Universe; he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.<br>Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. <br class="br">Variant: So Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
“Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled.”
Stanisław Lem book Imaginary Magnitude
Imaginary Magnitude" (1981), "Lecture XLIII", tr. Marc E. Heine (1984)
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
Lisa Mason book Summer of Love
Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 35)
“One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.”
Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)
Statement about Hans Globke, as quoted in "In eigener Sache" at n-tv (8 June 2006) http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BND-ueberprueft-Eichmann-Infos-article184945.html
