Stephen Hawking Short Quotes

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We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

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I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe.

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Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

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If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.

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We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system.
On colonizing space

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I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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Asked what he thinks about most during the day:
Women. They are a complete mystery.

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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

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There's nothing like the Eureka moment, of discovering something that no one knew before.

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The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

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

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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

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We still believe that the universe should be logical and beautiful; we just dropped the word "God."

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

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In response to a question on how we should live:
We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

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If there is one thing we can be sure enough of in physics it is that all time exists with equal reality.

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What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

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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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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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