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Stephen Hawking Quotes

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“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: Hope, Encouragement, differences, Success, Positivity, Eddie, Redmayne, delivers, moving, Performance, Stephen, Hawking, The, Theory, Of, Everything, trailer
“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”
— Stephen Hawking, Inside a Great Mind
Tagged: Interview, interviewStephen Hawking, physicist, Science, Space, Stephen Hawking
“However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”
— Stephen Hawking, Interaction Design for 3D User Interfaces
Tagged: Hope, Life, Success
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious.”
— Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking marks 70th birthday with speech to leading cosmologists
Tagged: 70th Birthday Cambridge University Speech
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
— Stephen Hawking, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
Tagged: Quiet, Shy, Intelligence
“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
— Stephen Hawking, 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy
Tagged: angry, Complaining, Attitude
“We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
Tagged: History, Observation, Creation
“If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.”
— Stephen Hawking, My Brief History
Tagged: Control, Power, Universe
“Stephen Hawking: [introducing themselves for the first time] Hello.

Jane Hawking: Hello.

Stephen Hawking: Science.

Jane Hawking: Arts.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: introduction, Science, Arts
“To prove with a single equation that time had a beginning. Wouldn't that be nice, professor? The one simple elegant equation, to explain everything.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: equation, Theory
“Jane Hawking: What do cosmologists worship?

Stephen Hawking: A single unifying equation that explains everything in the universe.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: cosmologists, Universe
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
— Stephen Hawking, Magic Apples
Tagged: Expectations, fortunate, bonus
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
— Stephen Hawking, Ring Around the Rosie
Tagged: computer virus, Technology, Destruction
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
— Stephen Hawking, Nirvana in the Garden of Eden: The Quantum Leap and Evolution of 2012
Tagged: monkeys, humans, Universe
“Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
— Stephen Hawking, Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty: Problems of Epistemic Inference
Tagged: God, dice, Religion
“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”
— Stephen Hawking, Information, Communication, and Space Technology By Mohammad Razani
Tagged: humanity, Survival, Space
“We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.”
— Stephen Hawking, What Would You Like To Do?
Tagged: Existence, Universe, Time
“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”
— Stephen Hawking, Of Wit N Humour
Tagged: Aliens, Government, Secrets
“We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.”
— Stephen Hawking, This is the most dangerous time for our planet
Tagged: Technology, environment, Nature, Pollution
“It will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there’s no immediate cause for worry!”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: Earth, Sun, Death, Time
“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, A Sorcerer's Apprentice
Tagged: Hope, Future, Technology, possibilities
“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
— Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
Tagged: computer, Free, paralyzed
“You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.”
— Stephen Hawking, Christ Is Our God: It Is Mathematics: Deducible Originalism
Tagged: Religion, God, Universe
“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.”
— Stephen Hawking, Naturalopy: The Complete Reference: Naturalopy
Tagged: Religion, Afterlife, fairy tales, Lies
“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook
Tagged: Problem Solving, Questions, Answers
“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
Tagged: Guilt, humanity, Blame
“I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year. To learn above all a measure of humility.”
— Stephen Hawking, This is the most dangerous time for our planet
Tagged: Elitism, Inequality, Social Class, Humility, Intellectuals
“The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.”
— Stephen Hawking, Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go But Something You Do
Tagged: computer, Technology, Power
“Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Simple Story of a Not-So-Simple Universe: It's Not the Only Story
Tagged: intelligent life, Earth, primitive
“The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
Tagged: dimensions, Funny, Exciting
“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”
— Stephen Hawking, Inside the Mind of Stephen Hawking: Quotes from a Scientific Genius
Tagged: Greed, stupidity, planet
“Since there are now more people with a telephone than access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, this will shortly mean nearly everyone on our increasingly crowded planet will not be able to escape the inequality.”
— Stephen Hawking, This is the most dangerous time for our planet
Tagged: Inequality, Social Class, Society, Technology, Capitalism
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”
— Stephen Hawking, Naturalopy Precept 15: Success
Tagged: Universe, Perfection, Imperfection
“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
— Stephen Hawking, Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed!
Tagged: Intelligence, stupidity, Insanity
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Eight Answers for Happiness
Tagged: Aliens, America, invasion
“The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”
— Stephen Hawking, Human Nature: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity
Tagged: Universe, Surprises, Rules
“The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: Progress, university, School
“The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.”
— Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
Tagged: Universe, Questions, humanity
“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”
— Stephen Hawking, No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit
Tagged: Science
“There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don’t shake hands.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: antiworlds, antiparticles, Funny
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