Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

Ronald Graham

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Robert M. Hutchins

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Robert M. Hutchins

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Leonhard Euler

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Lawrence Hargrave

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Lawrence Hargrave

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Mary Lyon

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Maria Mitchell

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Rudy Rucker

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Rudy Rucker

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

Robert Woodrow Wilson