Stephen William Hawking Famous Quotes
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'"
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.
"God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them."
It matters if you just don't give up.
Stephen William Hawking Quotations
"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
Fran Lebowitz
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
Marian Evans
"He who laughs, lasts"
Mary Pettibone Poole
"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power."
Ovid
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
Jim Davis
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.
Flora Colao
"Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
Stephen Vincent Benet
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm
"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them."
Rudolf Virchow