740 Quotes by Stephen Hawking

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

We live in a bewildering world.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.