Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

Dimitar Sasselov

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Noam Chomsky

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Paracelsus

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters.

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Infinite in All Directions

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

[As a young teenager] read ]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Men of Mathematics

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

The Nicomachean Ethics

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The Nicomachean Ethics

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

The Nicomachean Ethics

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The Nicomachean Ethics

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Startide Rising

Humans are actually spirit beings who each possess a mind and a body and what we do with them is entirely up to us.

Spirituality - Gathered Inspirational Thoughts

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophical Investigations

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Politics

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Politics

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed