Stephen Hawking Quotes - Page 15

Computers double their performance every month.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

You cannot predict the future.

When two's company, three's the result!

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

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.

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

Science makes God unnecessary.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

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

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

The Universe in a Nutshell

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

Computer viruses are alive.