Top 300 Stephen Hawking Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Religion believes in miracles, but these aren’t compatible with science.”

— Stephen Hawking

202. “The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.”

— Stephen Hawking

203. “Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.”

— Stephen Hawking

204. “There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.”

— Stephen Hawking

205. “We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws of physics.”

— Stephen Hawking

206. “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”

— Stephen Hawking

207. “Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”

— Stephen Hawking

208. “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

209. “I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.”

— Stephen Hawking

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210. “Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.”

— Stephen Hawking

211. “Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn’t as if he was going to need them.”

— Stephen Hawking

212. “I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”

— Stephen Hawking

213. “The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.”

— Stephen Hawking

214. “Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.”

— Stephen Hawking

215. “What lies north of the North Pole?”

— Stephen Hawking

216. “In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.”

— Stephen Hawking

217. “It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!”

— Stephen Hawking

218. “If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”

— Stephen Hawking

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219. “It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

— Stephen Hawking

220. “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.”

— Stephen Hawking

221. “When two’s company, three’s the result!”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

223. “Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”

— Stephen Hawking

224. “Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

— Stephen Hawking

225. “I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.”

— Stephen Hawking

226. “We see the universe the way it is because we exist.”

— Stephen Hawking

227. “If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.”

— Stephen Hawking

228. “A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.”

— Stephen Hawking

229. “At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don’t wait for me to write a response. I’m shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don’t know.”

— Stephen Hawking

230. “We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.”

— Stephen Hawking

231. “The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”

— Stephen Hawking

232. “One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.”

— Stephen Hawking

233. “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

234. “If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.”

— Stephen Hawking

235. “We’ve created life in our own image.”

— Stephen Hawking

236. “Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant.”

— Stephen Hawking

237. “Theology is unnecessary.”

— Stephen Hawking

238. “Maxwell is the physicist’s physicist.”

— Stephen Hawking

239. “There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.”

— Stephen Hawking

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240. “It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”

— Stephen Hawking

241. “Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?”

— Stephen Hawking

242. “It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.”

— Stephen Hawking

243. “The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.”

— Stephen Hawking

244. “Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.”

— Stephen Hawking

245. “Being confined to a wheelchair doesn’t bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.”

— Stephen Hawking

246. “Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.”

— Stephen Hawking

247. “Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.”

— Stephen Hawking

248. “If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.”

— Stephen Hawking

249. “Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.”

— Stephen Hawking

250. “There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.”

— Stephen Hawking