The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church,… — 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
It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come… — 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