I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'


Stephen Hawking

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
LUCY HAWKING
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react t...
PETER HIGGS
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
CARROT TOP
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would li...
LUCY HAWKING
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who ...
JOHN LYDON
My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
DANE COOK
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy...
IAN HARDING
'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd n...
LAILA ROBINS
It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
EUDORA WELTY
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses...
TONY HAWK
My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'
ELLEN BARKIN
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally ...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR
I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my countr...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions of...
GEORGE WOODCOCK
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my...
BARBRA STREISAND
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward att...
WARWICK DAVIS
I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in...
JENNIFER GREY
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I w...
BEN BARNES
I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classma...
DUSTIN MILLIGAN
I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I w...
KERRY GREENWOOD
I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls ...
KATE VOEGELE
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never list...
JENSON BUTTON
I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, to...
GEORGE BEST
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both cov...
JENNY ZHANG
Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I...
BROCK LESNAR
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction...
FREDERIK POHL
I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for he...
REESE WITHERSPOON
I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t...
GEORGIA HOLT
I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS
It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything...
MICHELLE OBAMA
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty...
SHAKIRA
I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunio...
PERCY SLEDGE
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS
In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Joh...
JEFF DUNHAM
Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium ...
LAKSHMI MITTAL
My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolw...
DON RICKLES
Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car...
OLESYA RULIN
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone...
JANE GOODALL
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in...
DONNA BRAZILE
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone...
KATHERINE JENKINS
None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like t...
LAUREN CONRAD
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classma...
BEN CARSON
The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And ...
ANDY COHEN
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older ...
FRANK IERO
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. B...
JOHN MADDEN
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation...
PETER DIAMANDIS
I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
I graduated with my ninth grade class (Langdale School) in the spring of 1941. Our graduation exerci...
JEAN WILLIAMS
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi...
MARILYN MONROE
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton an...
GARY CARTER
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
NATALIE PORTMAN
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird rec...
IAN ANTHONY DALE
I was mad that the school was closing. I'd have to find new friends, ... most of my friends came bac...
MAURICE BROWN
I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the fi...
DARREN STAR
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t...
SHAILENE WOODLEY
I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have...
MALIN AKERMAN
There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When...
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD
I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But t...
TINA TURNER
I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted t...
KATHERINE WEBB
I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have...
EVA GREEN
I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're ...
JOLENE BLALOCK
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I...
KELSEA BALLERINI
I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at t...
ELIZA COUPE
When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part h...
NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would kn...
JOHN THORN
When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't partic...
RENEE OLSTEAD
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-t...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD
My grandparents actually, whenever they got the chance, took me to Broadway, but that started when I...
SHANICE WILLIAMS
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
DAKOTA FANNING
I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w...
DEV HYNES
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d...
ROBERT DAVID HALL
I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My bro...
JUNIOR SEAU
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. T...
JEFF DUNHAM
In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom ...
SHAY MITCHELL
I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my step...
PATTIE BOYD
In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad See...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni...
JULIAN CASTRO
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in choru...
JOHN C. REILLY
When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE
Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. C...
JEFFREY TOOBIN
I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of...
LEV GROSSMAN
I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not...
JACOB BATALON
My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I a...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER
I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a l...
LAURIE GRAHAM
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they could...
RANDY CASTILLO
When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all...
CATERINA SCORSONE
After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents...
JOSIE LOREN
The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was go...
KATIE MELUA
I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different characte...
VALERIE AZLYNN
There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid&#...
DALEY THOMPSON
My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f...
EDWARD P. JONES
When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I,...
DAN PINK
I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't h...
BEN SIMMONS
My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expect...
TROIAN BELLISARIO
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. ...
MICHELLE OBAMA

More Stephen Hawking

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
STEPHEN HAWKING
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wo...
STEPHEN HAWKING
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....
STEPHEN HAWKING
It matters if you just don't give up.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
STEPHEN HAWKING
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
STEPHEN HAWKING
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.
STEPHEN HAWKING
As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - a...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can unders...
STEPHEN HAWKING
All my adult life people have been helping me.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of rela...
STEPHEN HAWKING
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
STEPHEN HAWKING
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
STEPHEN HAWKING
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the cen...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
STEPHEN HAWKING
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discov...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the...
STEPHEN HAWKING
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid o...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heave...
STEPHEN HAWKING
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't preve...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the hum...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on resea...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
STEPHEN HAWKING
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, an...
STEPHEN HAWKING
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't t...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoverie...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
STEPHEN HAWKING
My three children have brought me great joy.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is extremely important to me to write for children.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
STEPHEN HAWKING
The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write t...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly t...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.
STEPHEN HAWKING
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
STEPHEN HAWKING
My wife and I love each other very much.
STEPHEN HAWKING
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-qual...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - w...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested m...
STEPHEN HAWKING
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Nothing cannot exist forever.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.
STEPHEN HAWKING
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
STEPHEN HAWKING
What was God doing before the divine creation?
STEPHEN HAWKING
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will ce...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Exploration by real people inspires us.
STEPHEN HAWKING
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between b...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to d...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much l...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nucl...
STEPHEN HAWKING
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
STEPHEN HAWKING
If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in t...
STEPHEN HAWKING
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
STEPHEN HAWKING
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war,...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
STEPHEN HAWKING
When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
STEPHEN HAWKING
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but wor...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.
STEPHEN HAWKING
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundre...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible su...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is im...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is no unique picture of reality.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
STEPHEN HAWKING
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
STEPHEN HAWKING
There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is prob...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge ever...
STEPHEN HAWKING
God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
STEPHEN HAWKING
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we sh...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
STEPHEN HAWKING
One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, bu...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Women. They are a complete mystery.
STEPHEN HAWKING
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 200...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimat...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
STEPHEN HAWKING
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
STEPHEN HAWKING
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predictin...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I'm an atheist.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limi...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, h...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy le...
STEPHEN HAWKING
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more ad...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular bo...
STEPHEN HAWKING
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's a...
STEPHEN HAWKING
'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say...
STEPHEN HAWKING
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
STEPHEN HAWKING
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We live in a bewildering world.
STEPHEN HAWKING
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
STEPHEN HAWKING
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitr...
STEPHEN HAWKING
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity....
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change...
STEPHEN HAWKING
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks mea...
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't don...
STEPHEN HAWKING
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by pre...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This no...
STEPHEN HAWKING
My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the n...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evi...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.
STEPHEN HAWKING
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exi...
STEPHEN HAWKING
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
STEPHEN HAWKING
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason
STEPHEN HAWKING
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is....
STEPHEN HAWKING
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, dir...
STEPHEN HAWKING
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
STEPHEN HAWKING
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
STEPHEN HAWKING
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that expla...
STEPHEN HAWKING
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physic...
STEPHEN HAWKING
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
STEPHEN HAWKING
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand fore...
STEPHEN HAWKING
My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the com...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
STEPHEN HAWKING
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...
STEPHEN HAWKING
When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sens...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests,...
STEPHEN HAWKING
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
It matters if you just don't give up
STEPHEN HAWKING
In such a massive place as the cosmos we only have to look at ourselves for prove that extremely unl...
STEPHEN HAWKING
I put a lot of effort into writing A Briefer History at a time when I was critically ill with pneumo...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didnĀ“t reply, 'he was p...
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value
STEPHEN HAWKING
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by every...
STEPHEN HAWKING