145 Stephen Hawking Quotes for You to Enjoy

Stephen Hawking

English Physicist

Born: Jan 8, 1942

Died: Mar 14, 2018

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Related authors: Albert Einstein Brian Greene J. Robert Oppenheimer Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Niels Bohr Richard P. Feynman Werner Heisenberg

Nothing cannot exist forever. Stephen Hawking

Nothing Exist Forever Cannot

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics. Stephen Hawking

Beautiful Science Physics Simple Biology Examples Observations Between Makes Equations Different Explanations Double Connections Include Fundamental Phenomena

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

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people. Stephen Hawking

People Stars Shadow Could Galaxies Even

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

Saying Reality Pet Picture Few Sides Gazing Distorted Out Would City City Council Council Cruel True Know Bowl Bowls Because How Fish Years Years Ago Italy Owners Goldfish View Barred Keep Keeping

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. Stephen Hawking

Big Before Stars Universe Too Other Hundred Rapidly Thousand Would Rate Had Part Smaller Reached Greater Big Bang Been Hand Expansion Bang Size Form After Planets Even Million Present Second

Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. Stephen Hawking

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In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. Stephen Hawking

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not. Stephen Hawking

Superman Everything Would Superhero Had Pick He Choose

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going. Stephen Hawking

Good Morning Only Never Get Any Going After Afternoon Four

What was God doing before the divine creation? Stephen Hawking

God Before Creation Divine Doing

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Stephen Hawking

Own Stars Think Universe Our Hundred Hundred Years Way Sun Ourselves Find New Years Than Sitting New Way Just Just One Center Which Galaxy Less Found Now Milky Way Millions

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. Stephen Hawking

Simple Understanding Universe Complete Complete Understanding Goal Exists Why

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. Stephen Hawking

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With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. Stephen Hawking

Wait Will Slow Engineering Increase Changes Our Complexity See Able Slow Process About Genetic Genetic Engineering Because Years Effect Improve Human Process Race Human Race Code

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing. Stephen Hawking

Nothing Universe Something Know Greater Exists Than Want Why

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. Stephen Hawking

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? Stephen Hawking

Long Edge Beginning Universe Neither Would Having Could Had Simply Self-Contained Boundary Suppose Nor End Place Then Really Creator

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of. Stephen Hawking

Life War Thought Other Virus Earth Dangers Out Risk Wiped Genetically Disaster Global Being Engineered Sudden Nuclear Nuclear War

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. Stephen Hawking

Intelligence Will Add Danger Direct Rather Take Computers Develop Over Real Opposition Brain Than Human Urgently Human Intelligence Connections Need

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. Stephen Hawking

Work Alone Challenge Alien Thinking Out About Rational Perfectly Like Make Real Mathematical Brain Might Work Out Actually Numbers

We should seek the greatest value of our action. Stephen Hawking

Value Action Our Seek Greatest Should

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