Stephen Hawking Quotes

English - Physicist | January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018

I'm an atheist.

Stephen Hawking

Atheist

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Stephen Hawking

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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

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Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Stephen Hawking

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I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

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I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

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Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

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

Stephen Hawking

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If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

Stephen Hawking

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There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Stephen Hawking

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