Stephen Hawking Quotes

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

What place, then, for a creator?

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.

However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

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Computers double their performance every month.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

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.

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.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.