Famous Quotes / Stephen Hawking
18 Quotations by Stephen Hawking
- 1. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
- 2. Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
- 3. Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
- 4. For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
- 5. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the ...
- 6. I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This no ...
- 7. It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't don ...
- 8. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
- 9. It matters if you just don't give up.
- 10. My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exi ...
- 11. The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe.
- 12. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- 13. The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of wh ...
- 14. The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitr ...
- 15. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can unders ...
- 16. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal ...
- 17. We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evi ...
- 18. When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.