Top 300 Stephen Hawking Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it’s extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.”

— Stephen Hawking

52. “Only time – whatever that may be – will tell.”

— Stephen Hawking

53. “So Einstein was wrong when he said, “God does not play dice.” Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.”

— Stephen Hawking

54. “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

— Stephen Hawking

55. “Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”

— Stephen Hawking

56. “Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!”

— Stephen Hawking

57. “I’m really easy to get along with once you see it my way.”

— Stephen Hawking

58. “Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.”

— Stephen Hawking

59. “The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

60. “We should seek the greatest value of our action.”

— Stephen Hawking

61. “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

— Stephen Hawking

62. “What is important is that we have the ability to create.”

— Stephen Hawking

63. “Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you’re an ass.”

— Stephen Hawking

64. “One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.”

— Stephen Hawking

65. “You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.”

— Stephen Hawking

66. “Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.”

— Stephen Hawking

67. “We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.”

— Stephen Hawking

68. “One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.”

— Stephen Hawking

69. “When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.”

— Stephen Hawking

70. “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”

— Stephen Hawking

71. “It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

— Stephen Hawking

72. “If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can’t turn off. I dream equations all night.”

— Stephen Hawking

73. “The Universe in a Nutshell.”

— Stephen Hawking

74. “We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?”

— Stephen Hawking

75. “The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.”

— Stephen Hawking

76. “Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.”

— Stephen Hawking

77. “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.”

— Stephen Hawking

78. “I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”

— Stephen Hawking

79. “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.”

— Stephen Hawking

80. “Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.”

— Stephen Hawking

81. “Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

83. “If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.”

— Stephen Hawking

84. “Love the neighbor. But don’t get caught.”

— Stephen Hawking

85. “So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?”

— Stephen Hawking

86. “To boldly go where no one has gone before.”

— Stephen Hawking

87. “What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

89. “There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.”

— Stephen Hawking

90. “As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.”

— Stephen Hawking

91. “Disability need not be an obstacle to success.”

— Stephen Hawking

92. “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!”

— Stephen Hawking

93. “We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.”

— Stephen Hawking

94. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.”

— Stephen Hawking

95. “Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.”

— Stephen Hawking

96. “I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.”

— Stephen Hawking

97. “So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton’s laws of motion.”

— Stephen Hawking

98. “The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”

— Stephen Hawking

99. “We won’t know for a few years.”

— Stephen Hawking

100. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”

— Stephen Hawking