Top 300 Stephen Hawking Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”

— Stephen Hawking

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2. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

— Stephen Hawking

3. “The universe doesn't allow perfection.”

— Stephen Hawking

4. “Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

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6. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”

— Stephen Hawking

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7. “While there is life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

8. “I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”

— Stephen Hawking

9. “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”

— Stephen Hawking

10. “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

— Stephen Hawking

11. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

— Stephen Hawking

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12. “Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.”

— Stephen Hawking

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13. “People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”

— Stephen Hawking

14. “I don’t fear God - I fear His believers.”

— Stephen Hawking

15. “When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.”

— Stephen Hawking

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16. “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

18. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

20. “I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”

— Stephen Hawking

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21. “Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

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22. “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

— Stephen Hawking

23. “Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.”

— Stephen Hawking

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24. “The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

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26. “So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”

— Stephen Hawking

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27. “The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.”

— Stephen Hawking

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28. “To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”

— Stephen Hawking

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29. “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

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30. “In my mind, I am free.”

— Stephen Hawking

31. “It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

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32. “I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.”

— Stephen Hawking

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33. “The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”

— Stephen Hawking

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34. “You cannot predict the future.”

— Stephen Hawking

35. “Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.”

— Stephen Hawking

36. “We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.”

— Stephen Hawking

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37. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

— Stephen Hawking

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38. “I’m not religious in the normal sense. 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

39. “Succeed in spite of management.”

— Stephen Hawking

40. “It’s the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.”

— Stephen Hawking

41. “If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”

— Stephen Hawking

42. “No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.”

— Stephen Hawking

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43. “Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.”

— Stephen Hawking

44. “Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

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46. “I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.”

— Stephen Hawking

47. “For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.”

— Stephen Hawking

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48. “Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?”

— Stephen Hawking

49. “Why do we remember the past, but not the future?”

— Stephen Hawking

50. “There is no unique picture of reality.”

— Stephen Hawking