Stephen Hawking Quotes And Sayings

We Must Develop As Quickly As Possible Technologies That Make Possible A Direct Connection Between Brain And Computer, So That Artificial Brains Contribute To Human Intelligence Rather Than Opposing It.

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.

Intelligence Is The Ability To Adapt To Change.

A Zero-gravity Flight Is A First Step Toward Space Travel.

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.

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.

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 Regard The Brain As A Computer Which Will Stop Working When Its Components Fail. There Is No Heaven Or Afterlife For Broken Down Computers; That Is A Fairy Story For People Afraid Of The Dark.

In My Opinion, There Is No Aspect Of Reality Beyond The Reach Of The Human Mind.

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 Us Something Very Special.

Even If There Is Only One Possible Unified Theory, It Is Just A Set Of Rules And Equations. What Is It That Breathes Fire Into The Equations And Makes A Universe For Them To Describe?

There Are Grounds For Cautious Optimism That We May Now Be Near The End Ofthe Search For The Ultimate Laws Of Nature.

I Believe Alien Life Is Quite Common In The Universe, Although Intelligent Life Is Less So. Some Say It Has Yet To Appear On Planet Earth.

We Only Have To Look At Ourselves To See How Intelligent Life Might Develop Into Something We Wouldn't Want To Meet.

The Whole History Of Science Has Been The Gradual Realization That Events Do Not Happen In An Arbitrary Manner, But That They Reflect A Certain Underlying Order, Which May Or May Not Be Divinely Inspired.

There Is No Unique Picture Of Reality.

There Is No Heaven Or Afterlife For Broken-down Computers; That Is A Fairy Story For People Afraid Of The Dark.

Why Are We Here? Where Do We Come From? Traditionally, These Are Questions For Philosophy, But Philosophy Is Dead.

Observations Indicate That The Universe Is Expanding At An Ever Increasing Rate. It Will Expand Forever, Getting Emptier And Darker.

The Media Need Superheroes In Science Just As In Every Sphere Of Life, But There Is Really A Continuous Range Of Abilities With No Clear Dividing Line.

No One Can Resist The Idea Of A Crippled Genius.

Nothing Cannot Exist Forever.

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.

When We Understand String Theory, We Will Know How The Universe Began. It Won't Have Much Effect On How We Live, But It Is Important To Understand Where We Come From And What We Can Expect To Find As We Explore.

'The Simpsons' Appearances Were Great Fun. But I Don't Take Them Too Seriously. I Think 'The Simpsons' Have Treated My Disability Responsibly.

Earth Might One Day Soon Resemble The Planet Venus.

A Few Years Ago, The City Council Of Monza, Italy, Barred Pet Owners From Keeping Goldfish In Curved Bowls... Saying That It Is Cruel To Keep A Fish In A Bowl With Curved Sides Because, Gazing Out, The Fish Would Have A Distorted View Of Reality. But How Do We Know We Have The True, Undistorted Picture Of Reality?

I Think Those Who Have A Terminal Illness And Are In Great Pain Should Have The Right To Choose To End Their Own Life, And Those That Help Them Should Be Free From Prosecution.

To My Mathematical Brain, The Numbers Alone Make Thinking About Aliens Perfectly Rational. The Real Challenge Is To Work Out What Aliens Might Actually Be Like.

In Less Than A Hundred Years, We Have Found A New Way To Think Of Ourselves. From Sitting At The Center Of The Universe, We Now Find Ourselves Orbiting An Average-sized Sun, Which Is Just One Of Millions Of Stars In Our Own Milky Way Galaxy.

As Irving Good Realised In 1965, Machines With Superhuman Intelligence Could Repeatedly Improve Their Design Even Further, Triggering What Vernor Vinge Called A 'Singularity.'

The Missing Link In Cosmology Is The Nature Of Dark Matter And Dark Energy.

I Can't Disguise Myself With A Wig And Dark Glasses - The Wheelchair Gives Me Away.

When One's Expectations Are Reduced To Zero, One Really Appreciates Everything One Does Have.

No One Undertakes Research In Physics With The Intention Of Winning A Prize. It Is The Joy Of Discovering Something No One Knew Before.

Although Almost Every Theoretical Physicist Agrees With My Prediction That A Black Hole Should Glow Like A Hot Body, It Would Be Very Difficult To Verify Experimentally Because The Temperature Of A Macroscopic Black Hole Is So Low.

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.

Sometimes I Wonder If I'm As Famous For My Wheelchair And Disabilities As I Am For My Discoveries.

God Is The Name People Give To The Reason We Are Here. But I Think That Reason Is The Laws Of Physics Rather Than Someone With Whom One Can Have A Personal Relationship. An Impersonal God.

I Hope I Have Helped To Raise The Profile Of Science And To Show That Physics Is Not A Mystery But Can Be Understood By Ordinary People.

Science Can Lift People Out Of Poverty And Cure Disease. That, In Turn, Will Reduce Civil Unrest.

I Think It Quite Likely That We Are The Only Civilization Within Several Hundred Light Years; Otherwise We Would Have Heard Radio Waves.

I Think We Have A Good Chance Of Surviving Long Enough To Colonize The Solar System.

I Believe There Are No Questions That Science Can't Answer About A Physical Universe.

I Was Never Top Of The Class At School, But My Classmates Must Have Seen Potential In Me, Because My Nickname Was 'Einstein.'

I Don't Have Much Positive To Say About Motor Neurone Disease. But It Taught Me Not To Pity Myself Because Others Were Worse Off, And To Get On With What I Could Still Do.

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.

God May Exist, But Science Can Explain The Universe Without The Need For A Creator.

I Would Like Nuclear Fusion To Become A Practical Power Source. It Would Provide An Inexhaustible Supply Of Energy, Without Pollution Or Global Warming.

I Think Computer Viruses Should Count As Life. I Think It Says Something About Human Nature That The Only Form Of Life We Have Created So Far Is Purely Destructive. We've Created Life In Our Own Image.