Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Edward E. Barnard

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Enrico Fermi

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

Eugene Fama

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Bruce Schneier

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Grace Hopper

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Herman Kahn

Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content.

Henri Lebesgue

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

David Hilbert

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Daniel Kahneman

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Daniel Kahneman

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Daniel Kahneman

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Daniel Kahneman

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Daniel Kahneman

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Johannes Kepler

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon