Quotes from 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.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

Computers double their performance every month.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

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.

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.