Stephen Hawking Famous Quotes



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

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.

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.


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"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface."
Aldous Huxley

"There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless."
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
Shirley Mount Hufstedler

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.
Charles McCabe

"One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act."
Hannah More

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Bronte

The journey is the reward.
Taoist Proverb

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Sir Winston Churchill