Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Cosmos

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Culture and Value

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

Ethics

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Glory Season

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Maria Mitchell

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Orson Pratt

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Metaphysics

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Selected Works

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Physics

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Politics

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Herman Kahn

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Vera Rubin

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus