Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

Saul Perlmutter

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Arthur Eddington

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Alan Perlis

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

Adam Riess

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Aristotle

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Aristotle

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Aristotle