In A Brief History of Time: From the <!g>Big Bang to Black Holes (New York: Bantam, 1988), <!g>Stephen Hawking, while giving up the older ideal of a completely <!g>deterministic science, still says that the goal of science should be "the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by <!g>the uncertainty principle" (173). He evidently holds, furthermore, that those limits are purely human <!g>epistemic, as he suggests we can "still imagine that there is a set of laws that determines events completely for some supernatural being, who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it" (55).