Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

John Pople

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Dan Ariely

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

Daniel J. Bernstein

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

David Brin

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

David Brin

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Daniel Kahneman

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Daniel Kahneman

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

Daniel Kahneman

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

Daniel Kahneman

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

Daniel Kahneman

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Daniel Kahneman

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

John Harrison

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Emily Greene Balch

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

John Pople

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Kip Thorne

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

Nathan Myhrvold