A Brief History Of Time Quotes

#1. It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.

Matt Ridley

#2. My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Stephen Hawking

#3. I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

Stephen Hawking

#4. In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

Stephen Hawking

#5. When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.

Dalton Trumbo

#6. My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

Doug Jones

#7. Whatever their origin, the human race was fortunate to have seen such a wonder; it could exist for only a brief moment of time in the history of the Solar System.

Arthur C. Clarke

#8. This I know ... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. O. J. Simpson theory of legal fees: I'm not paying you; you're lucky to be here; go make a buck with your book.

John Grisham

#10. For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!

James Gleick

#11. No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

Alan Dershowitz

#12. Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Denis Leary

#13. If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.

Klaus Barbie

#14. Beauty may fade, intellect dulls, but your spirit, that will live on forever,

Shannon Stoker

#15. Scared people are creative people.

Jodi Meadows

#16. Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Louis Kahn

#17. He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.

Henry James

#18. Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Richard Hamming

#19. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G.Wells

#20. Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Greg Boyle

#21. -"I am really starting to dislike you."
-"You know what they say: dislike is akin to lust."
-"That's not the expression."
-"It is in my world. You wouldn't be the first one to tell me you hate me only to rip my clothes off and ride me like a wild cowgirl.

Eve Langlais

#22. We are a only on this majestic earth for a brief and short period time but of history. Why not use this time in kindness to make humanity a better and brighter place for all

Timothy Pina

#23. In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

Warren Farrell

#24. Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

Demetri Martin