Stephen Hawking Quotes

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
Stephen Hawking

Two, Three, Common

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
Stephen Hawking

Universe, Getting, Forever

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.
Stephen Hawking

Science, Nothing, Different

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking

Nature, End, May

You can't regulate every lab in the world.
Stephen Hawking

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.
Stephen Hawking

Brain, Difficult, Off

All my adult life people have been helping me.
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Life, Adult, Helping

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
Stephen Hawking

Hope, Among, Respected

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking

God, Cannot, Sometimes

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
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Science, Black, Used

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen Hawking

Science, Physics, Modern

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
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Using, Scientists

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

Power, Energy, Become

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Place, Everyone

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Stephen Hawking

Easy, Point, Three

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
Stephen Hawking

Change, Great, America

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Science, Line

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Nationality: English

Type: Physicist

Born: January 8, 1942

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