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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
“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
“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
“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
“There was a young lady of Wight who travelled much faster than light. She departed one day, in a relative way, and arrived on the previous night.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: Funny, travel, physics
“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”
— Stephen Hawking, Christ Is Our God: It Is Mathematics: Deducible Originalism
Tagged: physics, Space, Universe, Philosophy
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
— Stephen Hawking, Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Tagged: terrestrial, Attention, humanity
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
— Stephen Hawking, Think Level 4 Student's Book
Tagged: intelligent life, Aliens, humanity
“Jane Hawking: So, I take it you've never been to church?

Stephen Hawking: Once upon a time.

Jane Hawking: Tempted to convert?

Stephen Hawking: I have a slight problem with the celestial dictatorship premise.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: Church, Conversion, celestial dictatorship, atheism
“It is clear that we are just an advanced breed of primates on a minor planet orbiting around a very average star, in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. BUT, ever since the dawn of civilization people have craved for an understanding of the underlying order of the world.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: galaxies, World, order
“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: God vs Science
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: time travel, Future, tourists
“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: Universe, Perfection, impossibilities
“What did God do before he created the universe?”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: God, Universe, Creation
“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
— Stephen Hawking, Psychology: Modules for Active Learning
Tagged: Intelligence, boasting, losers
“Women. They are a complete mystery to me.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Thousand Daggers
Tagged: Women, Mystery, confusing
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
— Stephen Hawking, From Big Bang to Big Mystery
Tagged: Work, Meaning, Love, Luck
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
— Stephen Hawking, Advanced Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Operations
Tagged: inelligence, Knowledge, Change, adaptation
“I like physics, but I love cartoons.”
— Stephen Hawking, Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books
Tagged: physics, cartoons, Funny
“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.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Sorcerer's Apprentice
Tagged: Mankind, Animals, Communication
“Brian: Stephen, your 'motor-mouth' disease, does it affect, um...

Stephen Hawking: What?

Brian: [Gesturing towards his crotch] Uh, everything?

Stephen Hawking: What? No. Different system. Automatic.

Brian: Are you serious? Well that's pretty wonderful isn't it? Well it certainly explains a lot about men.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Tagged: motor-mouth, Crotch
“But 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 come 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, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: humanity, civilization, Knowledge
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