Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

On Certainty

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Cosmos

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Cosmos

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Cosmos

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Cosmos

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Cosmos

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Cosmos

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Culture and Value

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Culture and Value

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Culture and Value

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Culture and Value

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Einstein's Dreams

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Earth

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

Earth

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

Brother to Dragons

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

Brother to Dragons

A blanket could be used to study the stars more thoroughly. I don’t know how exactly, because I’m not Stephen Hawking. Somebody get me a wheelchair.


Blanket

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

David Brin