Stephen Hawking Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

  Stephen Hawking

  Education, Science, People

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

• 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.

• Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Life, Science

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Play, Black

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.26, Princeton University Press

• 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

• My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Science, Expectations

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

• One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Engineering, Long

• I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Technology, Thinking

  Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in "The Daily News", August 4, 1994.

• 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

  Science, Simple, Goal

  "Stephen Hawking's Universe". Book by John Boslough, 1985.

• When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

  Stephen Hawking

  Cat, Science, Pistols

  "The Whole Shebang". Book by Timothy Ferris, 1998.

• We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, World

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

• So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Self, Long

  "Faith and Reason" with Margaret Wertheim, www.pbs.org. September 11, 1998.

• We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Science, Intelligent

  "Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens". news.bbc.co.uk. April 25, 2010.

• Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Play, Dating

  "The Nature of Space and Time". Stephen Hawking's lectures with Roger Penrose at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge sponsored by Princeton University Press, arxiv.org. September 30, 1994.

• [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

  Stupid, Science, Intelligent

• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  Stephen Hawking

  Good Life, Science, Our Actions

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

• 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

  Religious, Science, Law

  "Physicist Stephen Hawking Says There Is No Heaven". www.foxnews.com. May 16, 2011.

• The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

  Stephen Hawking

  God, Science, Order

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.104, Random House

• I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

  Stephen Hawking

  Sex, Book, Science

  "The Illustrated A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1996.

• All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Science, Answers

• Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Worry, Technique

• I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.

  Stephen Hawking

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

• If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Real, Independent

  "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1993.

• A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Simple, Discovery

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.70, Random House

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