Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives. Stephen Hawking More Quotes by Stephen Hawking More Quotes From Stephen Hawking [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. Stephen Hawking intelligent stupid science The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century. Stephen Hawking technology past years Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Stephen Hawking romance passion reason Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. Stephen Hawking might beautiful giving So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. Stephen Hawking black play science I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. Stephen Hawking religious law believe It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. Stephen Hawking reasonable asks answers The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. Stephen Hawking law time past Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end. Stephen Hawking existential space earth It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious. Stephen Hawking crazy space philosophy A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation. Stephen Hawking predictions simple firsts Love the neighbor. But don't get caught. Stephen Hawking caught neighbor I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low. Stephen Hawking race civilization thinking I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking suicide dark death [I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery. Stephen Hawking mystery thinking One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. Stephen Hawking engineering science long Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Stephen Hawking connections simple beautiful The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. Stephen Hawking future-possibilities possibility past Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half. Stephen Hawking half two years Theology is unnecessary. Stephen Hawking theology unnecessary
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