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Stephen Hawking
English
Physicist
Born:
Jan 8
,
1942
Died:
Mar 14
,
2018
Me
People
Science
Think
Time
Universe
Related authors:
Albert Einstein
Brian Greene
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Martin H. Fischer
Michio Kaku
Niels Bohr
Richard P. Feynman
Werner Heisenberg
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
Change
Intelligence
Ability
Adapt
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
Motivational
You
Try
Sense
Down
Stars
Universe
See
About
Feet
Look
Make
Makes
Exist
Up
Wonder
Curious
Your
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking
Time
Angry
You
Anger
People
Complaining
Always
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
Life
Intelligence
Alien
Believe
Universe
Earth
Say
Some
Although
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Quite
Common
Planet
Planet Earth
Less
Appear
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Stephen Hawking
Life
Funny
Would
Would-Be
Were
Tragic
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Stephen Hawking
You
People
Regret
Advice
Other
Would
Would-Be
Spirit
Prevent
Physically
Disability
Disabled
Concentrate
Well
Doing
Interferes
Your
Things
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Stephen Hawking
Impossible
Brainy
Believe
Make
Cannot
Themselves
Things
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
Space
Universe
Minor
Something
Advanced
Makes
Understand
Very
Just
Average
Us
Planet
Breed
Special
Star
Monkeys
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
Stupidity
Looking
Greed
Increasingly
Our
Danger
We Cannot
Destroying
Ourselves
Small
Remain
Overcrowded
Polluted
Cannot
Planet
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen Hawking
Future
Past
Indefinite
Possibilities
Only
Like
Exists
Spectrum
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics
Women
People
Physics
Better
Behavior
Understanding
Universe
Too
Else
Tell
Solve
Tick
Particularly
Because
Makes
Equations
How
Began
Than
May
Human
Human Behavior
Anyone
Anyone Else
Predicting
While
Far
Us
Much
Use
Many
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking
Change
People
Before
Nothing
Everything
Claim
Cross
Road
Look
Predestined
Noticed
Who
Even
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Stephen Hawking
Internet
Giant
Neurons
Like
Brain
Connected
Now
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen Hawking
Find
Never
Occasionally
Answer
How
Am
Still
Questions
Up
Child
Just
Asking
Who
Keep
Grown
Why
Grown-Up
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
Human Being
Spirit
Share
Same
Human
Being
Different
Standard
Human Spirit
Thing
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Stephen Hawking
Death
First
Hurry
Die
Afraid
Want
Much
Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking
Women
Complete
Complete Mystery
Mystery
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
God
Sometimes
Seen
Only
Throws
He
Does
Dice
Where
Cannot
Them
Play
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking
Broken
People
Dark
Will
Down
Components
Computer
Computers
Fail
Fairy
Brain
Heaven
Stop
Afraid
Regard
Afterlife
Story
Which
Working
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Stephen Hawking
God
Science
Universe
Without
Exist
May
Explain
Creator
Need
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
Survival
Sense Of Humor
Mind
Humor
Sense
Active
Has-Been
Vital
Maintaining
Been
Keeping
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking
Time
You
Travel
Science
Space
Thought
Before
Relativity
Possibility
Out
General
Could
Return
Science Fiction
Go
Rocket
Off
Time Travel
Just
Fiction
Einstein
Much
Warp
Used
Theory
Set
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Stephen Hawking
Life
Meet
Ourselves
See
Something
Only
Develop
Look
How
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Want
Might
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
Appreciates
Everything
Does
Reduced
Expectations
Really
Zero
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
Stephen Hawking
Me
Class
School
Seen
Top
Must
Classmates
Potential
Never
Because
Einstein
Nickname
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen Hawking
Alien
Visit
Out
Would
Outcome
Would-Be
Columbus
Well
America
American
Native
Native Americans
Which
Turn
Landed
Us
Much
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