Quotes from Stephen Hawking

Le désordre augmente avec le temps parce que nous mesurons le temps dans la direction où le désordre augmente. Qui dit mieux ?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Las personas que se jactan de su coeficiente intelectual son unos perdedores (Stephen Hawking)

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.