More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
contains on average some one hundred billion stars. If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.
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.
When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.
It is like a drinking straw. The surface of a straw is two-dimensional. However, one direction is curled up into a small circle, so that from a distance the straw looks like a one-dimensional line.
Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.
Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.
Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.
