The Theory of Everything

50 Stephen Hawking Quotes That'll Completely Change The Way You Think

However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do.  
Holly Riordan
August 3, 2016
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
— Stephen Hawking, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
Tagged: Quiet, Shy, Intelligence
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
— Stephen Hawking, How to Think Like Stephen Hawking
Tagged: Life, tragic, Funny
“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
“Only time (whatever that may be) will tell.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: Time, Future
“What did God do before he created the universe?”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: God, Universe, Creation
“You cannot predict the future.”
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Tagged: Future, Unpredictable, Time
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Akshaya Patra; Manasa Bhajare: Worship in the Mind: Volume One Book One
Tagged: Death, Fear, Life
“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
“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
— Stephen Hawking, Psychology: Modules for Active Learning
Tagged: Intelligence, boasting, losers
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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