Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Freeman Dyson

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

George Phillips Bond

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

Clyde Tombaugh

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. [ .]

Harold Urey

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Janos Bolyai

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Emily Greene Balch

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Enrico Fermi

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Enrico Fermi

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

Benoit Mandelbrot

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Bruce Schneier

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Graham Nelson

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

George Smoot

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

George Smoot

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Herman Kahn

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

James Nasmyth

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

J. Robert Oppenheimer