Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Course in General Linguistics

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Contact

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Cosmos

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Cosmos

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Cosmos

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Cosmos

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Cosmos

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Culture and Value

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Culture and Value

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Einstein's Dreams

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Einstein's Dreams

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Ethics

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Ethics

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

The Good Son

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

Brightness Reef

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De la Rue

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Charles Babbage

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Lars Peter Hansen