More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
The twentieth century saw man's view of the universe transformed: we realized the insignificance of our planet in the vastness of the universe, and we discovered that time and space we curved and inseparable , that the universe was expanding, and that it had a beginning in time.
This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time, about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, when they were all at exactly the same place and when, therefore, the density of the universe was infinite.
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Half the battle is just showing up.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.
I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
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 doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in.