“it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
[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… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“Empedocles noticed that if you cover the neck before you immerse it, a clepsydra does not fill. He reasoned that something invisible must be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
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… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
