Stephen Hawking Quotes

1942–2018 England

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

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Also known as: Hawking, Hawking, Stephen, Stephen W. Hawking, Stephen William Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. … We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)

The Dreams that Stuff is Made of

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can’t have a safer bet than that!

A Brief History of Time (1988)

If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018)

The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

A Brief History of Time (1988)

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.

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It matters if you don't just give up.

Attributed Going Within (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.