Stephen Hawking Quotes

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

Succeed in spite of management.

Simplicity is a matter of taste

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

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

Science will win because it works.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

We won't know for a few years.

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

Computer viruses are alive.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

The Universe in a Nutshell

Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.

If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

I do not believe in a personal God.

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.

I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

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

You cannot predict the future.

Science makes God unnecessary.

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.

When two's company, three's the result!

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

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