Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )


Stephen Hawking - Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- 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.

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

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

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

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

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- 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.

Stephen Hawking - Der Spiegel, 1989
- 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.