Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Frances Bean Cobain

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Moon Unit Zappa

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Peter Carey

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Emily Greene Balch

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Freeman Dyson

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Richard Dawkins

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Serge Lang

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

John Harrison

I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

Edward Witten

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

Edward Witten

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

George Phillips Bond

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

Charles Hermite

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Carl Sagan