Would be Quotes by Stephen Hawking

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the…

— Stephen Hawking

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the…

— Stephen Hawking

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

— Stephen Hawking

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the…

— Stephen Hawking

But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as…

— Stephen Hawking

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow…

— Stephen Hawking

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of…

— Stephen Hawking

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the…

— Stephen Hawking

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the…

— Stephen Hawking

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it…

— Stephen Hawking

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be…

— Stephen Hawking

Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence…

— Stephen Hawking

We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was…

— Stephen Hawking

If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the…

— Stephen Hawking

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb…

— Stephen Hawking

I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history…

— Stephen Hawking

One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe…

— Stephen Hawking

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ...…

— Stephen Hawking

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly…

— Stephen Hawking