Quotes about Stephen Hawking
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.
- Stephen Hawking
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
- Stephen Hawking
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
- Stephen Hawking
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
- Stephen Hawking
Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
- Stephen Hawking
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen Hawking
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
- Stephen Hawking
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.
- Stephen Hawking
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
- Stephen Hawking
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
- Stephen Hawking
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.
- Stephen Hawking
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
- Stephen Hawking