Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

John von Neumann

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Sean M. Carroll

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.

Tyler Cowen

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

Dick Costolo

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Emily Greene Balch

When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.

Margaret Geller

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Daniel Kahneman

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Imre Lakatos