Stephen Hawking

Best Quotes

• For what we regard as reality is conditioned by the theory to which we subscribe

• This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

• 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.

• The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

• One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

• My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

• If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

• I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

• For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

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

Stephen Hawking Quotes- See more quotes