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Us Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If,…
- The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more…
- 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…
- If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much…
- If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you…
- It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who…
- The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
- Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are…
- "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space…
- Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It…
- While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too…
- The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory…
- Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger…
- Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.
- We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes…
- If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
- The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
- We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not…
- What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
- So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but…
- The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
- We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature…
- As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation…
- Exploration by real people inspires us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong