The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — 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
We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him… — 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
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is… — 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
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — 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
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