Stephen Hawking Quotes

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018

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I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

Jewel

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In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the 'asymmetric methyl group' and applied the solution in some of the many ways that have proved possible.

John Cornforth

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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

Robert Kennedy

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I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Matthew Desmond

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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

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A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

Mika Brzezinski

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When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Johnny Mathis

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I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Dominic Cooper

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I did everything I could to not be a musician.

Dhani Harrison

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Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Dean Koontz

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I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

David Shields

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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Arthur Henderson

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