Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

Peter Higgs

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

Peter Higgs

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Paracelsus

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Paracelsus

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Paracelsus

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Robert Bork

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

Rene Cassin

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Richard Courant

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

Ralph Merkle

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

Ralph Merkle

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

Ralph Merkle

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Serge Lang

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Serge Lang

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

Saul Perlmutter

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

Saul Perlmutter

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

Saul Perlmutter

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

Saul Perlmutter

Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

Seth Shostak