Stephen Hawking Quotes

Plagiarism saves time.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

I think computer viruses should count as life.

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

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

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.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

Money is not everything. There's Master card & Visa.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

All my adult life people have been helping me.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

People think I'm a Simpsons character.

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

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

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.