Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Stephen Hawking Quotes: We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
         

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.


Stephen Hawking
Check all other quotes by Stephen Hawking

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Stephen Hawking Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2025. Fri. 31 Jan. 2025. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/We-are-in-danger-of-destroying-ourselves-1074165>.





Check out


Other quotes of Stephen Hawking


Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.



Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.



So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.



The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.



It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.



I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.



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

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



It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.



It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.



The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.





Other quotes you may like


The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.



Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.



When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.



this might be the happy ending without the ending

this might be the happy ending without the ending



One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.



Everything is Dinky Doo.

Everything is Dinky Doo.



It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.



Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.



Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.". Author of this quote is Stephen Hawking. This quote is about danger, greed, stupidity, destroying ourselves,.