Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

Ralph Merkle

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

Ralph Merkle

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Serge Lang

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Serge Lang

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

Saul Perlmutter

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

Saul Perlmutter

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

Saul Perlmutter

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

Saul Perlmutter

Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

Seth Shostak

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

Seth Shostak

The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Seth Shostak

'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that.

Seth Shostak

Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.

Seth Shostak

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

Steven Strogatz

We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.

Kip Thorne

The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.

Kip Thorne

If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.

Kip Thorne

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Kenneth G. Wilson

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

Lawrence M. Krauss