Stephen Hawking Quotes

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

~ Stephen Hawking

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

~ Stephen Hawking

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

~ Stephen Hawking

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

~ Stephen Hawking

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

~ Stephen Hawking

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

~ Stephen Hawking

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

~ Stephen Hawking

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

~ Stephen Hawking

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

~ Stephen Hawking

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

~ Stephen Hawking

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

~ Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

~ Stephen Hawking

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

~ Stephen Hawking

Computers double their performance every month.

~ Stephen Hawking

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

~ Stephen Hawking

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

~ Stephen Hawking

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

~ Stephen Hawking

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

~ Stephen Hawking

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

~ Stephen Hawking

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

~ Stephen Hawking

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

~ Stephen Hawking

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

~ Stephen Hawking

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

~ Stephen Hawking

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

~ Stephen Hawking

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

~ Stephen Hawking

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

~ Stephen Hawking

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

~ Stephen Hawking

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

~ Stephen Hawking

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

~ Stephen Hawking

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

~ Stephen Hawking

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

~ Stephen Hawking

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

~ Stephen Hawking

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

~ Stephen Hawking

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

~ Stephen Hawking

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

~ 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

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

~ Stephen Hawking

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

~ Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

~ Stephen Hawking

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

~ Stephen Hawking