Stephen Hawking Quotes And Sayings

If I Had To Choose A Superhero To Be, I Would Pick Superman. He's Everything That I'm Not.

I Have Visited Japan Several Times And Have Always Been Shown Wonderful Hospitality.

So Long As The Universe Had A Beginning, We Could Suppose It Had A Creator. But If The Universe Is Really Completely Self-contained, Having No Boundary Or Edge, It Would Have Neither Beginning Nor End: It Would Simply Be. What Place, Then, For A Creator?

Perhaps One Day I Will Go Into Space.

I Had Not Expected 'A Brief History Of Time' To Be A Best Seller.

I Have A Full And Satisfying Life. My Work And My Family Are Very Important To Me.

Wagner Manages To Convey Emotion With Music Better Than Anyone, Before Or Since.

I Have Wanted To Fly Into Space For Many Years, But Never Imagined It Would Really Be Feasible.

If You Understand The Universe, You Control It, In A Way.

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.

I Want My Books Sold On Airport Bookstalls.

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.

Look Up At The Stars And Not Down At Your Feet. Try To Make Sense Of What You See, And Wonder About What Makes The Universe Exist. Be Curious.

Some Scientists Think It May Be Possible To Capture A Wormhole And Enlarge It Many Trillions Of Times To Make It Big Enough For A Human Or Even A Spaceship To Enter.

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 Many Equations To Solve. I'm No Better Than Anyone Else At Understanding What Makes People Tick, Particularly Women.

The Fastest Manned Vehicle In History Was Apollo 10. It Reached 25,000 Mph.

My Three Children Have Brought Me Great Joy.

It Is Extremely Important To Me To Write For Children.

I Have Found Far Greater Enthusiasm For Science In America Than Here In Britain. There Is More Enthusiasm For Everything In America.

You Can't Regulate Every Lab In The World.

We Lived In A Tall, Narrow Victorian House, Which My Parents Had Bought Very Cheaply During The War, When Everyone Thought London Was Going To Be Bombed Flat. In Fact, A V-2 Rocket Landed A Few Houses Away From Ours. I Was Away With My Mother And Sister At The Time, But My Father Was In The House.

One Cannot Really Argue With A Mathematical Theorem.

My Ideal Role Would Be A Baddie In A James Bond Film. I Think The Wheelchair And The Computer Voice Would Fit The Part.

My Goal Is Simple. It Is A Complete Understanding Of The Universe, Why It Is As It Is And Why It Exists At All.

Not Only Does God Play Dice, But... He Sometimes Throws Them Where They Cannot Be Seen.

I Have Noticed Even People Who Claim Everything Is Predestined, And That We Can Do Nothing To Change It, Look Before They Cross The Road.

Scientists Have Become The Bearers Of The Torch Of Discovery In Our Quest For Knowledge.

The Radiation Left Over From The Big Bang Is The Same As That In Your Microwave Oven But Very Much Less Powerful. It Would Heat Your Pizza Only To Minus 271.3*c - Not Much Good For Defrosting The Pizza, Let Alone Cooking It.

Science Is Not Only A Disciple Of Reason But, Also, One Of Romance And Passion.

We Are In Danger Of Destroying Ourselves By Our Greed And Stupidity. We Cannot Remain Looking Inwards At Ourselves On A Small And Increasingly Polluted And Overcrowded Planet.

With Genetic Engineering, We Will Be Able To Increase The Complexity Of Our Dna, And Improve The Human Race. But It Will Be A Slow Process, Because One Will Have To Wait About 18 Years To See The Effect Of Changes To The Genetic Code.

People Won't Have Time For You If You Are Always Angry Or Complaining.

God Not Only Plays Dice, But Also Sometimes Throws Them Where They Cannot Be Seen.

Women. They Are A Complete Mystery.

There Is A Real Danger That Computers Will Develop Intelligence And Take Over. We Urgently Need To Develop Direct Connections To The Brain So That Computers Can Add To Human Intelligence Rather Than Be In Opposition.

I Have So Much That I Want To Do. I Hate Wasting Time.

Evolution Has Ensured That Our Brains Just Aren't Equipped To Visualise 11 Dimensions Directly. However, From A Purely Mathematical Point Of View It's Just As Easy To Think In 11 Dimensions, As It Is To Think In Three Or Four.

I Am Just A Child Who Has Never Grown Up. I Still Keep Asking These 'How' And 'Why' Questions. Occasionally, I Find An Answer.

For Years, My Early Work With Roger Penrose Seemed To Be A Disaster For Science. It Showed That The Universe Must Have Begun With A Singularity, If Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity Is Correct. That Appeared To Indicate That Science Could Not Predict How The Universe Would Begin.

Stem Cell Research Is The Key To Developing Cures For Degenerative Conditions Like Parkinson's And Motor Neuron Disease From Which I And Many Others Suffer. The Fact That The Cells May Come From Embryos Is Not An Objection, Because The Embryos Are Going To Die Anyway.

Imaginary Time Is A New Dimension, At Right Angles To Ordinary, Real Time.

Life Would Be Tragic If It Weren't Funny.

The Past, Like The Future, Is Indefinite And Exists Only As A Spectrum Of Possibilities.

I Believe Things Cannot Make Themselves Impossible.

One Can't Predict The Weather More Than A Few Days In Advance.

Because There Is A Law Such As Gravity, The Universe Can And Will Create Itself From Nothing.

Even If It Turns Out That Time Travel Is Impossible, It Is Important That We Understand Why It Is Impossible.

If The Rate Of Expansion One Second After The Big Bang Had Been Smaller By Even One Part In A Hundred Thousand Million Million, It Would Have Recollapsed Before It Reached Its Present Size. On The Other Hand, If It Had Been Greater By A Part In A Million, The Universe Would Have Expanded Too Rapidly For Stars And Planets To Form.

Our Population And Our Use Of The Finite Resources Of Planet Earth Are Growing Exponentially, Along With Our Technical Ability To Change The Environment For Good Or Ill.

I Was Born On January 8, 1942, Exactly Three Hundred Years After The Death Of Galileo. I Estimate, However, That About Two Hundred Thousand Other Babies Were Also Born That Day. I Don't Know Whether Any Of Them Was Later Interested In Astronomy.