Stephen Hawking quotes

" It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. " # Knowledge

" To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. " # Happiness # Spirit and Spirituality # Love

" My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. " # Goals # Understanding # Simplicity

" It matters if you just don't give up. " # Perseverance

" We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. " # Minorities # Love # Understanding

" I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. " # Change # Love # Death and Dying

" For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk. " # Imagination

" Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. " # America # World Affairs # Peace

" Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? " # Science and Scientists # Mathematics # Love