We all know the name who gave the theories over the Black Hole to the world, Stephen Hawking. Doctors gave him just two and half years because of his degenerative disease, yet he showed the world the strength of his inner self and how a powerful mind works.
He fought against his disability to achieve what he was capable of. We all have enough capability within us, but the result depends upon how we respond to it. Many people feel depressed if they do not manage to do something, and they think that they are not capable of doing it.
Stephen Hawking was totally against this kind of mindset. He was a fighter and he inspired the world to fight against all the odds. He used to give credit to his disease because according to him; his disability made him think always about the working of the universe.
Stephen Hawking never stopped working till his last breath and his quotes encourage the world to do the same. He used to talk about almost everything. Apart from being an inspiration to all, he also motivated people through his words, sharing his views on failure, success, love, future, science, etc.
Below, we have taken some of Stephen Hawking best quotes from his lectures, writing, and speeches to help people understand the value of life we have.
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Stephen Hawking Quotes
- Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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- I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
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- We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it’s mastery.
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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 thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
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- My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
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- Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
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- One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
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- Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
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- I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
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- Women.They are a complete mystery to me.
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- Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
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- The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
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- I have spent my life traveling across the universe, inside my mind.
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- Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.
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- Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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- If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
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- Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love. We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.
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- You cannot predict the future.
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- We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?
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- The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.
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- Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.
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- One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
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- You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
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- A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements. It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.
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- The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.
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- What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
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- If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.
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- No matter how powerful a computer you have, if you put lousy data in you will get lousy predictions out.
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- The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
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- However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.
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- My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics. Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe. And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.
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- I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
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- I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.
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- I like physics, but I love cartoons.
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- Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done.
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- The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
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- Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.
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- We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
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- The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can’t believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.
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- 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.
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- There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.
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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.
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- If aliens ever visit us, 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.
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- The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.
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- The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
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- Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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- Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
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- 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.
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- The Universe in a Nutshell.
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- Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.
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- Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement “God does not play dice.
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- Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.
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- I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
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- The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.
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- I am very aware of the preciousness of time. Seize the moment. Act now.
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- It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
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- People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
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- There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
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- We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,
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- Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.
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- Simplicity is a matter of taste.
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- People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
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- If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do.
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- One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
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- The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
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- I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.
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- When we see the Earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.
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- We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.
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- There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
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- The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
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- A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.
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- If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
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- Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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- It matters if you just don’t give up.
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- What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn’t prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
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- God abhors a naked singularity.
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- What did God do before he created the universe?
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- I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first.
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- The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.
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- Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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- There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.
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- I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
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- The universe doesn’t allow perfection.
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- Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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Conclusion
His motive was to make people understand that no difficulty can overpower the strength you have within. Quotes from Stephen Hawking can bring a light of hope to the lives of those people who take failures as barriers to their success.
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