Quotes from Stephen Hawking
I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
- Stephen Hawking
I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.
- Stephen Hawking
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
- Stephen Hawking
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
- Stephen Hawking
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
- Stephen Hawking
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
- Stephen Hawking
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.
- Stephen Hawking
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
- Stephen Hawking
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
- Stephen Hawking
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
- Stephen Hawking
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
- Stephen Hawking
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