Stephen Hawking Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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.

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.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

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

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

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.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

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.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

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

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.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark