Menu

Wishafriend

Quotes

Stephen Hawking Quotes

Browse our collection of Stephen Hawking quotes and sayings. Share Stephen Hawking quotes with friends and family.

Stephen Hawking Quotes & Sayings

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

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
- Stephen Hawking

I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!
- Stephen Hawking

All my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them.
- Stephen Hawking

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
- Stephen Hawking

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
- Stephen Hawking

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.
- Stephen Hawking

Maybe that is our mistake: maybe there are no particle positions and velocities, but only waves. It is just that we try to fit the waves to our preconceived ideas of positions and velocities.The resulting mismatch is the cause of the apparent unpredictability.
- Stephen Hawking

To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen.
- Stephen Hawking

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
- Stephen Hawking