Quotes by Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director

Lived from: 1942 - 2018

Category: Scientists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 8 january 1942 Died: 14 march 2018

  • Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
  • I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

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  • However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
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  • Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
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  • I have wondered about time all my life.
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  • I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
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  • Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
    Source: British Telecom advertentie (1993)
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  • A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
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  • Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
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  • As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
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  • Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
    Source: Stephen Hawking: A Biography (2005) by Kristine Larsen
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  • Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
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  • Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
    Source: A Brief History of Time (1988)
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  • God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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  • I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
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  • I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
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  • I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
    Source: The New York Times (12 December 2004)
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  • I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
    Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
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  • I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
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  • I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
    Source: The Illustrated Brief History of Time , voorwoord
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  • I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
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  • 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.
    Source: The Guardian (15 May 2011)
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