Stephen Hawking Quotes

English - Physicist January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018 Read full biography

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, Stars, Look, You, Feet

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

Women, Mathematics, People, Universe

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. - Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

Change, Intelligence, Ability, Adapt

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Stephen Hawking

Time, Angry, Anger, People, You, Always

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

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stephen Hawking

Internet, Brain, Connected, Like, Now

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Science, Knowledge, Discovery, Become

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

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

Stephen Hawking

Science, Passion, Only, Reason, Romance

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

Stephen Hawking

Wait, Slow, Process, Engineering, Race

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

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

Stephen Hawking

Life, Success, You, Succeed, Difficult

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

Life, Intelligence, Believe, Universe

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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

People, You, Regret, Advice, Doing, Your

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

Beautiful, Science, Simple, Physics

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Stephen Hawking

Winning, Research, Joy, Physics, Prize

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

Stephen Hawking

Mind, Humor, Survival, Sense Of Humor

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

Research, Die, Key, Others, Like, Fact

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. - Stephen Hawking

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

God, Sometimes, Play, Only, Dice, Seen

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. - Stephen Hawking

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

Life, Work, You, Purpose, Meaning, Empty

There is no unique picture of reality. - Stephen Hawking

There is no unique picture of reality.

Stephen Hawking

Picture, Reality, Unique

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

Success, Technology, History, Risks

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

Science, Time, Travel, Thought, Space

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

Stephen Hawking

Stars, Universe, Present, Big, Size

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

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

Stephen Hawking

Future, Past, Only, Possibilities, Like

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Stephen Hawking

Good, Alone, Cooking, Pizza, Powerful

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

Stephen Hawking

Choose, Superman, Everything, Superhero

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Stephen Hawking

I Am, Child, Find, Never, Questions, Why

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

School, Me, Classmates, Class, Never

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