Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

The four most common chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth. We are not simply in the universe. The universe is in us.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The Nicomachean Ethics

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The Nicomachean Ethics

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

The Nicomachean Ethics

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Liberalism and Its Critics

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Selected Works

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Selected Works

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Arthur Cayley

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

Alan Guth