Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Mary Lyon

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Maria Mitchell

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Marvin Minsky

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Rudy Rucker

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Stefan Banach

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Marcus du Sautoy

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

Myron Scholes

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

Margaret Turnbull

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

Paulo Freire

Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.

Dimitar Sasselov

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

Michael N. Castle

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

Emily Greene Balch

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

Edward Witten

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

Herman Kahn

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Alan King

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Kate Walsh

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

William Collins