In A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (New York: Bantam, 1988), Stephen Hawking, while giving up the older ideal of a completely 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 the uncertainty principle" (173). He evidently holds, furthermore, that those limits are purely human 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).