Stephen Hawking Quotes

"Quiet people have the loudest minds"

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being but we share the same human spirit. What is important is that we have the ability to create. This creativity can take many forms, from physical achievement to theoretical physics. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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.

I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.

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.

Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going.

My handwriting was the despair of my teachers. But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein.

Without imperfection, neither you or I would exist.

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.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.