Top 100 Quotes About Stephen Hawking
#1. 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.
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#2. Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
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#3. The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
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#4. Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.
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#5. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
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#6. Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
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#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
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#12. Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
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#13. The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.
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#14. 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.
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#15. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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#16. 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.
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#17. In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
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#18. It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.
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#19. Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
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#20. Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
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#21. 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.
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#22. Not only does God play dice but ... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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#23. [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.
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#24. According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.
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#26. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!
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#27. 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.
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#28. My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.
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#31. If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.
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#32. Remember to 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. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.
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#33. I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
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#34. We also now have evidence for several other black holes in systems like Cygnus X-l in our galaxy and in two neighboring galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. The
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#35. 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
#36. Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
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#37. I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets,
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#38. Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.
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#39. If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.
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#40. When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.
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#41. 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,
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#42. We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
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#44. It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
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#45. The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
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#46. Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:
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#48. It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
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#49. A proton or neutron is made up of three quarks, one of each color. A proton contains two up quarks and one down quark; a neutron contains two down and one up.
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#50. We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
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#51. In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
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#53. There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
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#54. The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
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#56. The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
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#57. Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
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#58. Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth.
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#59. Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were "elementary" particles, but experiments in which protons were collided with other protons or electrons at high speeds indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles.
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#60. I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
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#63. 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!
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#64. The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.
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#65. Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
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#66. A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
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#67. So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
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#69. The North Pole, but to someone looking from the equator, it appears to lie just at the horizon. From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance
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#70. Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
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#71. It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
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#72. Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!
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#73. Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.
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#74. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.
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#75. I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark
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#76. Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
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#77. Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that both is tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration. That is not easily explained, and raises the natural question of why it is that way.
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#78. I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Some people make a great mystery of this idea, sometimes called the multiverse concept, but these are just different expressions of the Feynman sum over histories.
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#81. One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
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#86. The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.
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#87. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.
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#89. Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
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#91. Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
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#92. There's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage. But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of public to believe that we might prove this wrong.
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#93. We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.
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#94. Some 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.
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#96. Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#97. The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
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#98. The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
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#100. 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.
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