Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Vera Rubin

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

William A. Dembski

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Walter Gropius

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

William Howard Taft

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Andrew Wiles

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

Clyde Tombaugh

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Bruner

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

Peter Higgs

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.

Whitfield Diffie

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Course in General Linguistics

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Contact

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Cosmos

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Cosmos

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Cosmos

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Cosmos

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Cosmos

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Culture and Value