Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

Kenneth G. Wilson

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

Leonhard Euler

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Max Born

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Michio Kaku

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Michio Kaku

When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Michio Kaku

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

Michio Kaku

There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.

Michio Kaku

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

Michio Kaku

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Maria Mitchell

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Maria Mitchell

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Maria Mitchell