stephen hawking best quotes July 2018

stephen hawking best quotes July 2018

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, Feet, Curious

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking
Time, Anger, Always

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
Change, Intelligence, Adapt

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking
Success, Always, However

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Stephen Hawking
Now, Like, Connected

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
Science, Reason, Disciple

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Science, Torch, Scientists
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, Tell, Use

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen Hawking
Work, Purpose, Meaning

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen Hawking
Past, Possibilities, Like
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There is no unique picture of reality.
Stephen Hawking
Reality, Unique, Picture
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
Intelligence, Planet, Some

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Stephen Hawking
Life, Would, Were
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
Technology, Learn, Last
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
Thought, Biology, Chemistry

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
God, Play, Does
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Stephen Hawking
Myself, College, Student
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
Biology, Double, Include
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
Small, Increasingly
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
Mind, Sense Of Humor, Been
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
Space, Thought, Fiction
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
Zero, Appreciates, Does
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
Regret, Doing, Other
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
Never, Top, Seen
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics, Languages
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking
Small, In The Past
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
Creator, Having, Boundary
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, Average, Very
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Stephen Hawking
Like, Global, Practical
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
Native Americans, Which

I'm an atheist.
Stephen Hawking
Atheist

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Stephen Hawking
Brainy, Things, Themselves
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
City, Bowls, Owners
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
Stephen Hawking
Law, Will, Itself
Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking
Mystery, Complete Mystery

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Stephen Hawking
Weather, More, Than
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
Stephen Hawking
Exponentially, Technical
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, Standard, Being
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, Die, Afraid
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
Race, May, Only
We live in a bewildering world.
Stephen Hawking
Live, World, Bewildering
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
Stephen Hawking
New, Angles, Imaginary
Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.
Stephen Hawking
Very, Almost, Theoretical
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
Die, Fact, Motor
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
Stephen Hawking
Superhero, Pick, Would
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.
Stephen Hawking
Disability, Always, Need
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking
Action, Seek, Should
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
Stephen Hawking
Reason, Give, Here
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
Stephen Hawking
Hate, Want, Wasting
Nothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen Hawking
Nothing, Exist, Cannot
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.
Stephen Hawking
Data, Big, Crunch
God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
Sometimes, Only, Plays