Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Benoit Mandelbrot

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Benoit Mandelbrot

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.

Bruce Schneier

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

G. H. Hardy

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Grace Hopper

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

George Smoot

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

Hermann Bondi

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Joseph Stiglitz

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Christopher Wren

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Dan Ariely