Stephen Hawking Quotes

[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.

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

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

What lies north of the North Pole?

It matters if you don't just give up.

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.

[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery.

What is important is that we have the ability to create.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Computers double their performance every month.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

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.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

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

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.