Top 532 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Hawking - Page 4

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

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 that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

I don't fear God- I fear His believers.

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.

It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.

I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Half the battle is just showing up.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an ass.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.