My expectations were reduced to zero... - Stephen Hawking - Quotes.Pub

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

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Stephen Hawking Quotes

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can’t think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don’t work, so I have to give it up.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn’t leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

When I get to heaven I’m gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

All that my work has shown is that you don’t have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Computers double their performance every month.

Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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.

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

You can’t regulate every lab in the world.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn’t tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

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