With the publication of his final book, Professor Stephen Hawking has revealed his answers to 10 'fundamental questions' he was constantly being asked. Now, his last'profound realisation' has been revealed- and he says that there is no afterlife or supreme being. Shortly before his death, Professor Stephen Hawking began compiling the answers to 10 'fundamental questions' he was constantly being asked. 'We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God,' he said, according to The Telegraph. 'No one created the universe and no one directors out fate.