Top 300 Stephen Hawking Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Religion believes in miracles, but these aren’t compatible with science.”

— Stephen Hawking

202. “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

203. “Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.”

— Stephen Hawking

204. “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

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

207. “Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.”

— Stephen Hawking

208. “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

209. “Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.”

— Stephen Hawking

210. “The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.”

— Stephen Hawking

211. “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

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

— Stephen Hawking

213. “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

214. “We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

217. “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

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

— Stephen Hawking

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

223. “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

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

— Stephen Hawking

225. “One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

228. “People think I’m a Simpsons character.”

— Stephen Hawking

229. “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

230. “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

231. “I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

233. “What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.”

— Stephen Hawking

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

238. “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

239. “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

240. “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

242. “I’m a child myself, in the sense that I’m still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.”

— Stephen Hawking

243. “If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist...”

— Stephen Hawking

244. “The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.”

— Stephen Hawking

245. “A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.”

— Stephen Hawking

246. “Computer viruses are alive.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

248. “Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.”

— Stephen Hawking

249. “We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.”

— Stephen Hawking

250. “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