Stephen Hawking Quotes And Sayings

I Think The Human Race Doesn't Have A Future If It Doesn't Go Into Space.

The Voice I Use Is A Very Old Hardware Speech Synthesizer Made In 1986. I Keep It Because I Have Not Heard A Voice I Like Better And Because I Have Identified With It.

I Think The Brain Is Essentially A Computer And Consciousness Is Like A Computer Program. It Will Cease To Run When The Computer Is Turned Off. Theoretically, It Could Be Re-created On A Neural Network, But That Would Be Very Difficult, As It Would Require All One's Memories.

The Paralympic Games Is About Transforming Our Perception Of The World.

Our Minds Work In Real Time, Which Begins At The Big Bang And Will End, If There Is A Big Crunch - Which Seems Unlikely, Now, From The Latest Data Showing Accelerating Expansion. Consciousness Would Come To An End At A Singularity.

Cosmology Is A Rapidly Advancing Field.

Science Is Increasingly Answering Questions That Used To Be The Province Of Religion.

It Is No Good Getting Furious If You Get Stuck. What I Do Is Keep Thinking About The Problem But Work On Something Else. Sometimes It Is Years Before I See The Way Forward. In The Case Of Information Loss And Black Holes, It Was 29 Years.

What Was God Doing Before The Divine Creation?

Time Travel Was Once Considered Scientific Heresy, And I Used To Avoid Talking About It For Fear Of Being Labelled A 'Crank.'

Keeping An Active Mind Has Been Vital To My Survival, As Has Been Maintaining A Sense Of Humor.

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.

I Am In Touch With A Company That Hopes To Replicate My Voice. However, They Are Not Replicating My Original Voice - If They Did That, I Would Sound Like A Man In His 20s, Which Would Be Very Strange! They Are Actually Trying To Replicate The Synthesizer That Sits On My Wheelchair.

I'm Never Any Good In The Morning. It Is Only After Four In The Afternoon That I Get Going.

The Planck Satellite May Detect The Imprint Of The Gravitational Waves Predicted By Inflation. This Would Be Quantum Gravity Written Across The Sky.

Before I Lost My Voice, It Was Slurred, So Only Those Close To Me Could Understand, But With The Computer Voice, I Found I Could Give Popular Lectures. I Enjoy Communicating Science. It Is Important That The Public Understands Basic Science, If They Are Not To Leave Vital Decisions To Others.

Theology Is Unnecessary.

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.

There Are Too Many Accidents That Can Befall Life On A Single Planet.

It Is Not Clear That Intelligence Has Any Long-term Survival Value.

I Used To Think Information Was Destroyed In Black Hole. This Was My Biggest Blunder, Or At Least My Biggest Blunder In Science.

There Are No Black Holes In The Sense Of Regimes From Which Light Can't Escape To Infinity.

I Can't Say That My Disability Has Helped My Work, But It Has Allowed Me To Concentrate On Research Without Having To Lecture Or Sit On Boring Committees.

I'm An Atheist.

M-theory Is The Unified Theory Einstein Was Hoping To Find.

I Believe The Universe Is Governed By The Laws Of Science. The Laws May Have Been Decreed By God, But God Does Not Intervene To Break The Laws.

Using E-mail, I Can Communicate With Scientists All Over The World.

The Usual Approach Of Science Of Constructing A Mathematical Model Cannot Answer The Questions Of Why There Should Be A Universe For The Model To Describe. Why Does The Universe Go To All The Bother Of Existing?

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.

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.

Maybe I Don't Have The Most Common Kind Of Motor Neuron Disease, Which Usually Kills In Two Or Three Years.

I Believe In Universal Health Care. And I Am Not Afraid To Say So.

I Enjoy All Forms Of Music - Pop, Classical And Opera.

All My Adult Life People Have Been Helping Me.

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.

My First Popular Book, 'A Brief History Of Time,' Aroused A Great Deal Of Interest, But Many Found It Difficult To Understand.

The Human Race May Be The Only Intelligent Beings In The Galaxy.

I Don't Have Much Positive To Say About Motor Neuron Disease, But It Taught Me Not To Pity Myself Because Others Were Worse Off, And To Get On With What I Still Could Do. I'm Happier Now Than Before I Developed The Condition.

My Wife And I Love Each Other Very Much.

We Are All Different. There Is No Such Thing As A Standard Or Run-of-the-mill Human Being, But We Share The Same Human Spirit.

It Now Appears That The Way The Universe Began Can Indeed Be Determined, Using Imaginary Time.

I Had A Bet With Gordon Kane Of Michigan University That The Higgs Particle Wouldn't Be Found.

I Wouldn't Be Here Today If It Were Not For The Nhs. I Have Received A Large Amount Of High-quality Treatment Without Which I Would Not Have Survived.

What I'd Really Like To Control Is Not Machines, But People.

There's No Way To Remove The Observer - Us - From Our Perceptions Of The World.

The Doctor Who Diagnosed Me With Als, Or Motor Neuron Disease, Told Me That It Would Kill Me In Two Or Three Years.

I Think The Discovery Of Supersymmetric Partners For The Known Particles Would Revolutionize Our Understanding Of The Universe.

Throughout History, People Have Studied Pure Science From A Desire To Understand The Universe Rather Than Practical Applications For Commercial Gain. But Their Discoveries Later Turned Out To Have Great Practical Benefits.

Computers Double Their Performance Every Month.

The Universe Is Not Indifferent To Our Existence - It Depends On It.