Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

Andrew Wiles

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

Andrew Wiles

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Benjamin Banneker

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

Paul Watson

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Scott Adams

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

Lee Smolin

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Vera Rubin

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

William A. Dembski

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Walter Gropius

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

William Howard Taft

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Andrew Wiles

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

Clyde Tombaugh

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Bruner

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

Peter Higgs

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.

Whitfield Diffie

God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wil...

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like ... it's easy to love rain ... and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums ... and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one w...

Where the Heart Is

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics