Top 100 Hawking Quotes
#1. Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.
Stephen Hawking
#2. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
Deepak Chopra
#3. Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I'm doing so well with it, I know I'm actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.
A.D. Aliwat
#4. Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently,
Steve Wozniak
#5. In a sense the debate between Penrose and Hawking is a continuation of that earlier argument, with Penrose playing the role of Einstein and Hawking that of Bohr.
Stephen Hawking
#6. We keep saying that we humans are all in the same boat. This is only physically true, but not mentally! For instance Stephen Hawking lives mentally on the space! Not everyman mentally lives on this planet!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Expressed in Planck units, the temperature T of a black hole is inversely proportional to its mass, m. This is a third law, Hawking's law: T = k/m. The constant k is very small in normal units. As a result, astrophysical black holes have temperatures of a very small fractionnof a degree.
Lee Smolin
#8. One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.
Stephen Hawking
#9. Which scientific puzzle confounds the genius of Hawking? "Women," he said. "They are a complete mystery.
John M. Gottman
#10. Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#12. I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.
Jolene Blalock
#13. Stephen Hawking won't come to Israel? I'm not one to punch a quadriplegic with glasses, but I'm sure he won't mind if we ask for his voice back - you know, the one that was created by Israeli engineers.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.
Kirk Cameron
#15. It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on multiple planets so an asteroid could come and you'd still have some humans left. It's a nice idea. It satisfies the multiple-eggs-in-multiple-baskets concept.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#16. The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith.
Christopher Hitchens
#17. ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.
Steve Gleason
#18. Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
Frederik Pohl
#19. Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov's design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger - theoretically, his beloved niece - from tumbling off backward.
Dan Simmons
#20. Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall.
Frankie Boyle
#21. I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
Helena Christensen
#22. I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place.
Peter Finch
#23. If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking
Rick Yancey
#24. In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
Peter Higgs
#25. Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.
James Marsh
#26. Playing Stephen [Hawking] was a constant reminder to put things in perspective: we only have one chance at this
Eddie Redmayne
#27. It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.
Ernest Bevin
#28. Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
Stephen Hawking
#29. Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes
are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!
Bill Hicks
#30. Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
Stephen Hawking
#31. Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
William Shakespeare
#33. The hunt for spouses is an activity on a par with fox-hunting or hawking, though the weapons and dramatis personae differ. Just as grizzled old men know the habits of hares and quail, so do elegant society gossips know every titbit about the year's eligible men and women.
Marie Brennan
#34. Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.
Guy Consolmagno
#35. The less one knows about meat, the more one is able to enjoy it. Meat tastes wonderful, of course, but as with the lad hawking hard-to-find wares at unbelievable prices, it's best not to ask too many questions.
Brian South
#36. Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
Nathan Myhrvold
#37. Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#38. Stephen Hawking Quotes
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
#39. And frankly, if you find yourself trapped by a creature blessed with the coordination of Stephen Hawking and the intelligence of a Black Friday midnight shopper you almost deserve to die. No,
Keith Taylor
#40. I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air ... and your own spirit goes with it.
Hilda Lewis
#41. Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.
Ray Comfort
#42. When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'
Gene Simmons
#43. Prayer without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog, and prayer without preparation is hawking with a blind falcon.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#44. Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.
Leon M. Lederman
#45. Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.
Katy Perry
#46. Teddy tried, in the manner of a simple layman, to keep up with theoretical physics, via articles in the Telegraph and an heroic struggle with Stephen Hawking in 1996, but admitted defeat when he came across string theory. From then on he took every day as it came, hour by hour.
Kate Atkinson
#47. Before she landed, Ms Clinton publicly downplayed the importance of human rights. At a press conference ahead of leaving, she beamingly implored the Chinese government to keep buying US debt, like a travelling saleswoman hawking a bill of goods.
Richard McGregor
#48. I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks.
Anna Bondoc
#49. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has proved that if two black holes unite, the surface area of the final black hole must exceed the sum of the surface areas of the initial black holes. For these reasons the total black-hole portion of the universe is ever increasing.
Clifford A. Pickover
#50. what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it?
Kristen Henderson
#51. Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.
Janice Dickinson
#52. Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.
Peter Diamandis
#53. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.
Antony Flew
#54. Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.
Leonard Mlodinow
#55. It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
H.L. Mencken
#56. Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.
Jay Leno
#57. I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#58. You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too.
Scott Adams
#59. Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'
Bill Maher
#60. I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy Hawking,' and that will be a fabulous day.
Lucy Hawking
#61. I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#62. Carter is the only President to ever release his actual IQ from a standardized test; it was 176. That is higher than either Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking, and is well into the genius level.
Robert Chamberlain
#63. Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.
Hugh Ross
#64. We are too small (compared to the universe), but capable of doing very big things" Stephen Hawking when studying in Cambridge.
Katerina Papanikolaou
#65. A blanket could be used to study the stars more thoroughly. I don't know how exactly, because I'm not Stephen Hawking. Somebody get me a wheelchair.
Jarod Kintz
#66. Here you have a hawk of the lure, not of the fist. He will not come to you. If you would have him, you must lay your heart upon your hawking-glove; and feed it to him.
Dorothy Dunnett
#67. I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.
Hugo Pratt
#68. Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.
Mary McCarthy
#69. It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
#70. Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.
David Letterman
#71. With pantheism ... the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself ... when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.
Victor J. Stenger
#72. You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.
Peaches Geldof
#73. The electromagnetic attraction between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the nucleus causes the electrons to orbit the nucleus of the atom, just as gravitational attraction causes the earth to orbit the sun.
Stephen Hawking
#74. Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
Stephen Hawking
#75. The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
Stephen Hawking
#76. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
Stephen Hawking
#77. Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
Stephen Hawking
#78. What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
Stephen Hawking
#80. 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
#81. I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.
Stephen Hawking
#82. Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
Stephen Hawking
#83. Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Stephen Hawking
#84. The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.
Stephen Hawking
#85. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#86. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking
#87. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#88. In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Stephen Hawking
#89. It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.
Stephen Hawking
#90. Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
Stephen Hawking
#91. Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
Stephen Hawking
#92. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#93. Not only does God play dice but ... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
#94. [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Stephen Hawking
#95. 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
#97. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!
Stephen Hawking
#98. 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
#99. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
Stephen Hawking
#100. I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.
Stephen Hawking
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