740 Quotes by Stephen Hawking

For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.

Relativitatea generală prezice existența unui punct în timp la care temperatura, densitatea și curbura spațiului sunt toate infinite, situație în care matematicienii o numesc singularitate.

...it is surely better to strive for a complete understanding than to despair of the human mind.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While there’s life, there is hope.

I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you just don't give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.