Stephen Hawking Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Giving Up, Feet

  "Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

• One, 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 Hawking

  Love, Life, Stars

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 07, 2010.

• Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

  Stephen Hawking

  Giving, Purpose, Aliens

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 7, 2010.

• The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

  Stephen Hawking

  Dark, Science, Giving

• Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Giving, Done

• You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fall, Past, Giving

• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Giving, Might

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.106, Random House

• There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

  Stephen Hawking

  Average, Weather, Giving

  "Predicting the Future". Book by Leo Howe and Alan Wain, 1993.

• The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

  Stephen Hawking

  Past, Giving, Increase

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

• there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Differences, Giving

• It matters if you don't just give up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Giving Up, Matter, Just Give Up

  "Attributed to Stephen Hawking in "Going Within" by Shirley MacLaine (p. 303)". 1990.

• It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Giving, Trying

• It matters that you don't just give up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Giving Up, Giving, Matter

  "Prof Stephen Hawking too unwell to deliver own 70th birthday speech" by Nick Collins, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 8, 2012.

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