Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Hawking (English Theoretical Physicist)

Stephen William Hawking (1942–2018) was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the science of cosmology—the study of the origins, structure, and space-time relationships of the universe.

Born in Oxford on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, Hawking was one of the most celebrated scientists of the twentieth century. Despite a progressively debilitating neuromuscular disease for almost all of his adult life, he accomplished groundbreaking scientific work about quantum gravity and black holes.

At age 21, while pursuing a PhD in cosmology at the University of Cambridge, Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS,) a degenerative neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Hawking’s mind, however, remained unaffected—he was able to commit much technical information to memory and work out complex equations. With the help of family and colleagues, Hawkins led a 55 year-long intellectual life and became one of the world’s most productive and creative theoretical physicists ever.

Hawking’s A Brief History of Time (1988) sold more than 11 million copies and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 100 weeks. His other popular books include The University in a Nutshell (2001) and The Grand Design (2011.)

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When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Expectation, Realistic Expectations, Appreciation

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Science

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Computers

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Intelligence

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
—Stephen Hawking

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
—Stephen Hawking

It matters if you just don’t give up.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Persistence, Perseverance

I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Computers

Each equation…in the book would halve the sales.
—Stephen Hawking

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.
—Stephen Hawking

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Chance

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Goal, Philosophy, Goals

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Enemy

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: The Universe

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Attention, Space

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.
—Stephen Hawking

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking

If we find the answer to that [why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.
—Stephen Hawking

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Intelligence, Intellectuals

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Thinking

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe…Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: The Universe

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Science

If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before.
—Stephen Hawking
Topics: Courage, Wildlife

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