More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
It is my view that 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. There is probably 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.
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. 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.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
If at first you don't succeed, try management.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.