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Stephen Hawking Quotes | Quotes said by Stephen Hawking

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #1

    [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.


  • Stephen Hawking Quote #2

    …only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: “Why is the universe the way we see it?” The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #3

    A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #4

    A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #5

    As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #6

    As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #7

    Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #8

    Computers double their performance every month.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #9

    Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #10

    Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #11

    Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #12

    Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #13

    For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #14

    For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #15

    God abhors a naked singularity.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #16

    God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #17

    God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #18

    God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #19

    However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #20

    I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #21

    I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #22

    I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #23

    I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #24

    I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #25

    I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #26

    I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #27

    I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #28

    I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #29

    I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

  • Stephen Hawking Quote #30

    I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

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