Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'

George Smoot

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Charles Babbage

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Wilhelm Dilthey

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Alfred Russel Wallace

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Andrew Wiles

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Cleveland Abbe

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Daniel Kahneman

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

Dimitar Sasselov

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

John Polkinghorne

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

Seth Shostak

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Antony Hewish

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Erwin Schrodinger

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

Freeman Dyson

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Ferdinand de Saussure

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand de Saussure

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Carl Sagan