Stephen Hawking Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

“We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.”

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

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.”

“I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'”

“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.”

“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”

“Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.”

“I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.”

“Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.”