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Stephen Hawking Quotes

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

– Stephen Hawking

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

– Stephen Hawking

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

– Stephen Hawking

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

– Stephen Hawking

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

– Stephen Hawking

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

– Stephen Hawking

There is no unique picture of reality.

– Stephen Hawking

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn’t be found.

– Stephen Hawking

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.

– Stephen Hawking

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.

– Stephen Hawking

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

– Stephen Hawking

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

– Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

– Stephen Hawking

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

– Stephen Hawking

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

– Stephen Hawking

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

– Stephen Hawking

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

– Stephen Hawking

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

– Stephen Hawking

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

– Stephen Hawking

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

– Stephen Hawking

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

– Stephen Hawking

You can’t regulate every lab in the world.

– Stephen Hawking

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

– Stephen Hawking

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

– Stephen Hawking

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

– Stephen Hawking

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

– Stephen Hawking

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

– Stephen Hawking

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

– Stephen Hawking

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

– Stephen Hawking

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

– Stephen Hawking

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