Author of quotes: Stephen Hawking. Page 4

We live, almost no understanding of the world. Not thinking about what mechanism generates the sunlight that ensures our existence, not thinking about gravity that holds us on the Earth without letting it throw us into space. We are not interested in the atoms which we are made and from the resistance which we are substantially dependent. Except for children (who still don't know enough not to ask such serious questions), few people scratching their heads over why nature is what it is, where did the space and not whether it existed always? Could the time one day to reverse, so that the result will be preceded by the cause? Is there an insurmountable limit to human knowledge? There are even kids (I met them) who want to know how does a black hole what is the smallest particle of matter? Why do we remember the past and remember the future? If he really was chaos, then how is it that now established a visible order? And why does the universe even exist?
In our society it is accepted that parents and teachers in response to these questions for the most part, shrug their shoulders, or calling out for help vaguely remembered references to a religious legend. Some do not like such topics because they vividly reveals the narrowness of human understanding.