Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

William Howard Taft

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

James Nasmyth

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Tom Lehrer

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Benjamin Spock

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.

Margaret Geller

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Critique of Pure Reason

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

On Certainty

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Cosmos

Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution

Cosmos

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Einstein's Dreams

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

Ethics

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

Hawkes Harbor

Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

H is for Hawk

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Brightness Reef

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Korzybski

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Nathan Myhrvold

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

Marissa Mayer