Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Culture and Value

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Einstein's Dreams

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Einstein's Dreams

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Ethics

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Ethics

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

Brightness Reef

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De la Rue

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Charles Babbage

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Lars Peter Hansen

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Barbara Corcoran

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The Nicomachean Ethics

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Tomorrow Happens

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Philosophical Investigations