Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What… — 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
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have 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
