Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

Richard Dawkins

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The New Quotable Einstein

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Turing & Burroughs

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

Politics

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Politics

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.

Graham Nelson

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

Graham Nelson

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

Richard Dawkins

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Gerard Debreu

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Gerard Debreu

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

Nathan Myhrvold

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

Nathan Myhrvold

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson