When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose. — 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
I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible. — 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
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio… — 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… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always… — 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
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of… — 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
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it… — 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 have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — 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
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
Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it… — 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
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