Stephen Hawking Quotes - Page 12

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Succeed in spite of management.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

It matters if you don't just give up.

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

Disability can be no handicap.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.