Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who lived from 1942 to 2018. He is renowned for his scientific work on Black Holes. Hawking also wrote a number of books of popular science, such as “A Brief History of Time” (1988).
This is a collection of quotes by Stephen Hawking.
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen HawkingLife on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen HawkingLife would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Stephen HawkingMany people find the universe confusing - it's not.
Stephen HawkingMost 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 HawkingMy 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.
Stephen HawkingMy expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
Stephen HawkingMy ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.
Stephen HawkingNo one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Stephen HawkingNo one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Stephen HawkingNothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen HawkingOne can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Stephen HawkingOne, 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.
Stephen HawkingPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen HawkingPeople won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen HawkingPlanets of all sorts exist.
Stephen HawkingPrimitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Stephen HawkingQuiet people have the loudest minds.
Stephen HawkingScience is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
Stephen HawkingSo 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?
Stephen HawkingSome 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.
Stephen HawkingSomeone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen HawkingSuccess 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 HawkingThe development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
Stephen HawkingThe greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen HawkingThe human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.
Stephen HawkingThe thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Stephen HawkingThe universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
Stephen HawkingTheology is unnecessary.
Stephen HawkingThere is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
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