The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history… — 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
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
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on… — 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 Image
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.” quote by Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/585/stephen-hawking-389_aliens_i-think-contacting-an-alien-civilization_1727877.jpg)
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